The Routledge companion to philosophy of medicine /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon, and Harold Kincaid.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiii, 563 pages) :
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illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge philosophy companions
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Part I : general concepts -- The concept of disease / Dominic Sisti and Arthur L. Caplan -- Disease, illness, and sickness / Bjorn Hofmann -- Health and well-being / Daniel M. Hausman -- Disability and normality / Anita Silvers -- Mechanisms in medicine / Phyllis Illari -- Causality and causal interference in medicine / Julian Reiss -- Frequency and propensity : the interpretation of probability in causal models for medicine / Donald Gillies -- Reductionism in the biomedical sciences / Holly K. Andersen -- Realism and constructivism in medicine / Jeremy R. Simon -- Part II : specific concepts -- Birth / Christina Scèhues -- Death / Steven Luper -- Pain, chronic pain, and suffering / Valerie Gray Hardcastle -- Measuring placebo effects / Jeremy Howick -- The concept of genetic disease / Jonathan Michael Kaplan -- Diagnostic categories / Annemarie Jutel -- Classificatory challenges in psychopathology / Harold Kincaid -- Classificatory challenges in physical disease / Mathias Brochhausen -- Part III : research methods (a) evidence in medicine -- The randomized controlled trial : internal and external validity ./ Adam La Caze -- The hierarchy of evidence, meta-analysis, and systematic review / Robyn Bluhm -- Statistical evidence and the reliability of medical research / Mattia Andreoletti and David Teira -- Bayesian versus frequentist clinical trials / Cecillia Nardini -- Observational research / Olaf M. Dekkers and Jane P. Vandenbroucke -- Philosophy of epidemiology / Alex Broadbent -- Complementary/alternative medicine and the evidence requirement / Kirsten Hansen and Klemens Kappel -- Part III : research methods (b) other research methods -- Models in medicine / Michael Wilde and Jon Williamson -- Discovery in medicine / Brendan Clarke -- Explanation in medicine / Mèael Lemoine -- The case study in medicine / Rachel A. Ankeny -- Values in medical research / Kirstin Borgerson -- Outcome measures in medicine / Leah McClimans -- Measuring harms / Jacob Stegenga -- Expert consensus / Miriam Solomon -- Part IV : clinical methods -- Clinical judgment / Ross Upshur and Benjamin Chin-Yee -- Narrative medicine / Danielle Spencer -- Medical decision making : diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis / Ashley Graham Kennedy -- Part V : variability and diversity -- Personalized and precision medicine / Alex Gamma -- Gender in medicine / Immaculada de Melo-Martâin and Kristen Intemann -- Race in Medicine / Sean A. Valles -- Atypical bodies in medical care / Ellen K. Feder -- Part VI : perspectives -- The biomedical model and the biopsychosocial model in medicine / Fred Gifford -- Models in mental illness / Jacqueline Sullivan -- Phenomenology and hermeneutics in medicine / Havi Carel -- Evolutionary medicine / Michael Cournoyea -- Philosophy of nursing : caring, holism and the nursing role(s) / Mark Risjord -- Contemporary Chinese medicine and its theoretical foundations / Judith Farquhar -- Double truths and the postcolonial predicament of Chinese medicine / Eric I. Karchmer -- Medicine as a commodity / Carl Elliott.