Overview
- Offers a comprehensive logical and epistemological discussion of clinical reasoning
- Analyses severe forms of uncertainty, which permeate the foundations of clinical reasoning and practice
- Examines the interaction between epistemic and non-epistemic values and clinical knowledge
- Discusses in depth nursing knowledge, theory and practice in the context of clinical reasoning
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 58)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Philosophy of Clinical Reasoning, Research and Practice
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Uncertainty in Medicine
- Prognostic Reasoning
- Clinical Hypotheses
- Abduction in Diagnostic
- Abductive Reasoning in Medicine
- Nursing Diagnosis
- Medical Diagnosis
- Abductive Inference in Medicine
- Philosophy of Clinical Reasoning
- Covid-19 “Patient zero”
- Epistemology of Placebo Effect
- Analysis of Placebo Beliefs
- Clinical Possibilities
- Health Risk Perception
- Health Risk Communication
- Epistemology of Medical Diagnosis
- Humanistic Approach to Health Care
- Philosophy of medicine and bioethics
- Philosophy of nursing
About this book
This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature. With a clear philosophical emphasis, the book investigates themes lying at the border between several disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, logic, epistemology, and philosophy of science; but also ethics, epidemiology, and statistics. At the same time, it critically discusses and compares several professional approaches to clinical practice such as the one of medical doctors, nurses and other clinical practitioners, showing the need for developing a unified framework of reasoning, which merges methods andresources from many different clinical but also non-clinical disciplines. In particular, this book shows how to leverage nursing knowledge and practice, which has been considerably neglected so far, to further shape the interdisciplinary nature of clinical reasoning. Furthermore, a thorough philosophical investigation on the values involved in health care is provided, based on both the clinical and philosophical literature. The book concludes by proposing an integrative approach to health and disease going beyond the so-called “classical biomedical model of care”.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Reasoning: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Values in Health Care
Authors: Daniele Chiffi
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59094-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59093-2Published: 02 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59096-3Published: 03 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59094-9Published: 01 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 162
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Nursing Research, Epistemology, Nursing Ethics