Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty

• Main Author: Cummings, Louise (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health.; Health psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Health Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.

This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: The Challenge for Public Health
• Chapter Two: Philosophy and Public Health
• Chapter Three: Argument from Ignorance
• Chapter Four: Argument from Authority
• Chapter Five: Argument from Analogy
• Chapter Six: Circular Argument
• Chapter Seven: Fallacies in Public Health
• Chapter Eight: Theory of Public Health Reasoning
• Bibliography
• Index.