Overview
- Philosophy and methodology of medical language
- Medical logic; extensive application of different systems of logic, including fuzzy logic, to medicine
- Philosophy and methodology of clinical practice
- Medical epistemology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 119)
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Medical Deontics
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Medical Logic
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Medical Artificial Intelligence
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Medical Metaphysics
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Epilog
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Logical Fundamentals
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About this book
Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing the logic and methodology of clinical decision-making, including artificial intelligence in medicine; 4. suggesting comprehensive theories of organism, life, and psyche; of health, illness, and disease; of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and therapy; and 5. investigating the moral and metaphysical issues central to medical practice and research. Many systems of (classical, modal, non-classical, probability, and fuzzy) logic are introduced and applied. Fuzzy medical deontics, fuzzy medical ontology, fuzzy medical concept formation, fuzzy medical decision-making and biomedicine and many other techniques of fuzzification in medicine are introduced for the first time.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine
Authors: Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9579-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9578-4Published: 27 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0549-1Published: 22 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9579-1Published: 06 April 2015
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 1224
Number of Illustrations: 120 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics