Means, Ends and Medical Care

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Wright, H.G (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Σειρά: Philosophy and Medicine ; 92
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Pragmatism.; Medical ethics.; Economic theory.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

In this remarkable book, Gary Wright brings his thirty years of experience as a physician in pediatric and family medicine together with his Ph.D. in philosophy to address the important problem of the nature of good medical reasoning. His intimate experiential knowledge of the founding assumptions o...

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• Cognitive Semantic Structures in Informal Means/Ends Reasoning
• Health and Disease: Fluid Concepts Evolved Non-Literally
• John Dewey’s Perspectives on Means and Ends: The Setting Which Makes Informal Deliberation Necessary
• John Dewey’s View Of Situations, Problems, Means And Ends
• Preference, Utility and Value in Means and Ends Reasoning
• Full Spectrum Means and Ends Reasoning.