Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine
Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2012.
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| Series: | Philosophy and Medicine,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Part I The Language of Medicine
- 1. The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language
- 2. The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language.- 3. The Pragmatics of Medical Language
- 4. Varieties of Medical Concepts.- 5. Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation
- Part II Medical Praxiology.- 6. The Patient
- 7. The Physician.- 8. Clinical Practice
- Part III Medical Epistemology
- 9. The Architecture of Medical Knowledge
- 10. Types of Medical Knowledge
- 11. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Medical Knowledge
- 12. Technoconstructivism
- Part IV Medical Deontics .- 13. Morality, Ethics, and Deontics
- 14. Disease as a Deontic Construct
- 15. Medicine Is a Deontic Discipline
- Part V Medical Logic
- Logic in Medicine
- 17. The Logic of Medicine
- Part VI Medical Metaphysics.- 18. On What There Are
- 19. Medical Ontology
- 20. On Medical Truth
- 21. On the Nature of Medicine
- Part VII Epilog
- 22. Science, Medicine, and Rationality
- 23. Perspectivism
- 24. The Doubter
- Part VIII Logical Fundamentals
- 25. Classical Sets 25
- 26 Classical Logic
- 27. Modal Extensions of Classical Logic
- 28. Non-Classical Logics
- 29. Probability Logic
- 30. Fuzzy Logic. .
