Philosophy of medicine. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Fred Gifford.
• Other Names: Gifford, Fred
• Contents: Introduction / Fred Gifford -- Concepts of health and disease / Chirstopher Boorse -- Medical ontology / Jeremy R. Simon -- Theories and models in medicine / R. Paul Thompson -- 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, Sander Greenland -- The logic of diagnosis / Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh -- Conceptual foundations of biological psychiatry / Dominic Murphy -- Brain death / Joh Lizza -- Nursing science / Mark Risjord -- Public health / Dean Rickles.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : North Holland
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (600 pages)
• Subjects: 610.1; Medicine -- Philosophy; Medical ethics; Philosophy, Medical
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080930916; 0080930913
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.