Classification, disease and evidence : new essays in the philosophy of medicine /: new essays in the philosophy of medicine. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert, Marc Silberstein, editors.
• Editors: Huneman, Philippe; Lambert, Gérard, 1957-; Silberstein, Marc
• Contents: Introduction: Surveying the Revival in the Philosophy of Medicine; The Emergence of the Philosophy of Medicine as an Academic Discipline; Questions in the Philosophy of Medicine; Causation and Causal Explanation; Nosology and Ontology; Ethics and Philosophical Issues; Presentation of the Book; References; Objectivity, Scientificity, and℗ the Dualist Epistemology of℗ Medicine; Introduction; Distinctions in the Art/Science Debate; Being a Science Versus Being Scientific; Values, Scientificity, and Objectivity; Objectivity and℗ the Scientificity of℗ Medicine. The Irreducible Complexity of Objectivity Scientificity and℗ the Epistemology of℗ Medicine; A Role for℗ a Unified Epistemology of℗ Medicine: Two Case Studies; Pathophysiology, Psychology, and℗ Social Science in℗ Hereditary Breast and℗ Ovarian Cancer; End-of-Life Care in℗ the Intensive Care Unit and℗ the Scientificity of℗ Medicine; Conclusion; References; The Naturalization of℗ the℗ Concept of℗ Disease; Introduction; The Naturalization of℗ Scientific Language; Pre-naturalized and℗ Naturalized Terms in℗ Science; Naturalization; Lingering on℗ a℗ Pre-naturalized Definition. The Debate Over the℗ Definition of℗ 'Disease' Is About a℗ Pre-℗Ưnaturalized Term The Opposition of℗ 'Naturalism' and℗ 'Normativism' About Disease Is About a℗ Pre-naturalized Term; The Consequences for℗ Naturalism of℗ Focusing on℗ the℗ Definition of℗ a℗ Pre-naturalized Term; A Sketch of℗ What a℗ Naturalized Definition Would Look Like; Questioning the℗ Implicit Science-Philosophy Division of℗ Domains; Inductive Approach to℗ the℗ Empirical Properties of℗ Disease; Are There Features Specific to℗ Disease in℗ Explanatory Models?; Is Disease Definable at the℗ Level of℗ Theoretical Biology? A New Disease Template for℗ Disease Sciences? Conclusion; References; What Will Psychiatry Become?; Introduction; The Medical Model; A Tradition of Computational Neuroscience; Modern Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry; Levels, Mechanisms and Reduction; From Laws to Mechanisms; Two Responses; Psychology, Humanity and Science; References; The Function Debate and℗ the℗ Concept of℗ Mental Disorder; Introduction; The Project for℗ a℗ Conceptual Analysis of℗ the℗ Concept of℗ Mental Illness; The Origins of℗ a℗ Controversy; Two Modern Versions of℗ the℗ Broussais' Principle. The Philosophers' Attitude Towards the℗ Psychiatry of℗ Their℗ Time Boorse's Populationist Approach; Psychiatry, a℗ Legitimate Theoretical Enterprise; "There Can Only Be℗ Mental Health if There Are Mental Functions"; Psychiatry, Between Body and℗ Mind; The Delimitation Issue: The℗ Bio-statistical Approach; Wakefield's Essentialist Approach; The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis; "Black Box Essentialism"; The Unity of℗ the℗ Concept of℗ Function; The Heuristic Value of℗ HDA; The Troubled Waters of℗ Essentialist Inference ... ; Conclusion; References.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht : Springer Science and Business Media
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (220 pages)
• Subjects: 610.1; Philosophy; Medicine -- Philosophy; Diseases -- Philosophy; Diseases -- Philosophy; Medicine -- Philosophy; Medical -- Ethics; Medical -- History; Bio-ethics; History of medicine; Medical ethics; Medicine; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789401788878; 9401788871; 9789401788861; 9401788863
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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