Philosophy of Medicine

Series Editor:
  • Dov M. Gabbay, King's College London, UK
  • Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • John Woods, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Edited by
  • Fred Gifford

Hardbound, 600 Pages

Published: July 2011

Imprint: North-holland

ISBN: 978-0-444-51787-6

Contents

  • Introduction, Fred Gifford
    Concepts of Health and Disease, Christopher Boorse
    Medical Ontology, Jeremy R. Simon
    Theories and Models in Medicine, R. Paul Thompson
    Reduction in Biology and Medicine, Kenneth F. Schaffner
    Causal Inference and Medical Experiments, Daniel Steel
    Patterns of Medical Discovery, Paul Thagard
    Evidence-Based Medicine, Robyn Bluhm and Kirstin Borgerson
    Group Judgment and the Medical Consensus Conference, Miriam Solomon
    Frequentist versus Bayesian Clinical Trials, David Teira
    Uncertainty in Clinical Medicine, Benjamin Djulbegovic, Iztok Hozo and Sander
    Greenland
    The Logic of Diagnosis, Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
    Conceptual Foundations of Biological Psychiatry, Dominic Murphy
    Brain Death, John Lizza
    Nursing Science, Mark Risjord
    Public Health, Dean Rickles
    Index

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