Medical Reasoning
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-091292-5 (ISBN)
In Medical Reasoning, neurologist Erwin B. Montgomery, Jr. offers a new and vital perspective. He begins with the idea that the need for certainty in medical decision-making has been the primary driving force in medical reasoning. Doctors must routinely confront countless manifestations of symptoms, diseases, or behaviors in their patients. Therefore, either there are as many different "diseases" as there are patients or some economical set of principles and facts can be combined to explain each patient's disease. The response to this epistemic conundrum has driven medicine throughout history: the challenge is to discover principles and facts and then to develop means to apply them to each unique patient in a manner that provides certainty.
This book studies the nature of medical decision making systematically and rigorously in both an analytic and historical context, addressing medicine's unique need for certainty in the face of the enormous variety of diseases and in the manifestations of the same disease in different patients. The book also examines how the social, legal, and economic circumstances in which medical decision-making occurs greatly influence the nature of medical reasoning. Medical Reasoning is essential for those at the intersection of healthcare and philosophy.
Erwin B. Montgomery, Jr., MD, has over 40 years' experience as an academic neurologist and neurophysiologist, he has held professor appointments in many neurology and neuroscience departments. Montgomery's clinical interests include deep brain stimulation and movement disorders, particularly Parkinson's disease; his research interests include the neurophysiology and pathophysiology of the basal ganglia-thalamic-cortical system.
Glossary of Concepts
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What Are We to Make of Reasoning in Modern Medicine?
Chapter 3: Epistemic Challenges and the Necessary Epistemic Responses
Chapter 4: Medical Epistemology: The Issues
Chapter 5: Deduction, Induction, and Abduction: The Basics
Chapter 6: Evolution of Medical Reasoning
Chapter 7: Variability versus Diversity in Variety-The Epistemic Conundrum and Responses
Chapter 8: The Meaninglessness of the Mean
Chapter 9: The Value of Statistical and Logical Thinking
Chapter 10: The Centrality and Origins of Hypotheses
Chapter 11: Necessary Presuppositions: The Metaphysics
Chapter 12: The False Notion of Intention, Choice, and Inhibition
Chapter 13: The Role of Metaphor
Chapter 14: Dynamics
Chapter 15: Medical Science versus Medical Technology
Chapter 16: Irreproducibility in Biomedical Science
Chapter 17: Medical Solipsism
Chapter 18: Critique of Practical and Clinical Medical Reasoning
Chapter 19: A Calling to Be Better Than Ourselves
Available on a Companion Website:
Appendix A: A Very Brief and Selective Introduction to Logic
Appendix B: A Basic and Selective Introduction to Probability and Statistics
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.11.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 35 |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 239 x 157 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-091292-8 / 0190912928 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-091292-5 / 9780190912925 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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