Classification, Disease and Evidence New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine /
This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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Σειρά: | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction
- Evolutionary Models of Virulence: Concepts, History and Current Applications; Alizon, Sam and Méthot, Pierre Olivier.-Objectivity, Scientificity and the Dualist Epistemology of Medicine; Cunningham; Thomas
- The Function Debate and the Concept of Mental Disorder; Steeves, Demazeux
- Defining genetic disease; Dekeuwer; Catherine
- Causal and probabilistic inferences in diagnostic reasoning: casting a historical light onto the current debates; Coste, Joël
- Risk factor and causality in epidemiology; Giroux, Elodie
- The naturalization of the concept of disease; Lemoine, Mael
- The Epistemology of Mental Illness; Dominic Murphy
- Power, Knowledge and Laughter: Forensic Psychiatry and the misuse of the DSM; Singy, Patrick
- Quality Assessment Tools for Evidence in Medicine; Stegenga, Jacob.