Classification, Disease and Evidence New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Huneman, Philippe (Editor), Lambert, Gérard (Editor), Silberstein, Marc (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 7
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Biology > Philosophy.; Medicine > History.; Medical ethics.; Philosophy of Biology.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; History 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.