Disease and Diagnosis Value-Dependent Realism /

• Main Author: Stempsey, William E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine ; 63
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Philosophy and science.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medical ethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Philosophy of Science.

The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center. At the time, I had inklings that the test results churned out by our laboratories were more than scientific facts. As a philosophically unsophistic...

Table of Contents:

• Fact and Value
• Social Constructivism vs. Scientific Realism
• Fact vs. Value
• Disease
• The Concept of Disease
• The Classification of Diseases
• Diagnosis
• The Elements of Diagnosis
• The Process of Diagnosis
• Conclusion.