R. Paul Thompson: Philosophy of Medicine

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Beschreibung

The nature of medicine raises fundamental questions about explanation, causation, knowledge and ontology - questions that are central to philosophy as well as medicine. In this book R. Paul Thompson and Ross E. G. Upshur introduce the fundamental issues in philosophy of medicine for those coming to the subject for the first time.

Über den Autor

R. Paul Thompson holds appointments as Professor in The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada.

Ross E. G. Upshur is a physician, and Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Cananda. He is also Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Scientific Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation and Assistant Director, Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health Systems.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction

1. Philosophy of Medicine: Its Scope and Subject Matter

2. Defining Health and Disease

3. Theories and Models in Medicine

4. Materialism and Reductionism in Science and Medicine

5. Probability and Randomness

6. Causality and Induction

7. Randomised Controlled Trials and Study Design

8. Some Central Measures in Clinical Medicine

9. Reasoning in Clinical Practice: Prevention, Diagnosis, Therapy, Prognosis, Palliation and Rehabilitation

10. Medicine from First-Person Perspectives: Phenomenology, Narrative of Knowledge and Qualitative Approaches to Knowledge Creation and Use in Medicine

11. Neurosciences and Diseases of the Mind

12. The Varieties of Modern Medicine: Evolutionary Medicine, Evidence-based Medicine, Precision and Personalised Medicine and Alternative Medicine

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780415501095
ISBN-10:	0415501091
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Thompson, R. Paul Upshur, Ross
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	R. Paul Thompson (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.08.2017
Gewicht:	0,324 kg