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Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh

    1. Theory of Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXVIII
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  2. The Language of Medicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 3-20

    3. The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 21-42

    4. The Pragmatics of Medical Language

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 43-50

    5. Medical Linguistics

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 51-58

    6. Varieties of Medical Concepts

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 59-82

    7. Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 83-108

  3. Medical Praxiology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. The Patient

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 111-280

    3. The Physician

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 281-282

    4. Clinical Practice

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 283-388

  4. Medical Epistemology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 389-389
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    2. The Architecture of Medical Knowledge

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 391-451

    3. Types of Medical Knowledge

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 453-468

    4. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Medical Knowledge

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 469-540

    5. Technoconstructivism

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 541-562

  5. Medical Deontics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 563-563
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    2. Morality, Ethics, and Deontics

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 565-576

    3. Disease as a Deontic Construct

      • Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
      Pages 577-585
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Keywords

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Theory of Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh

About the author

Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh (born 23 April 1942) is an analytic philosopher of medicine. He studied medicine and philosophy at the German universities of Münster, Berlin, and Göttingen with Internship and residency 1967-1971, assistant professor 1972-1982, full professor of philosophy of medicine at the University of Münster 1982-2004. Sadegh-Zadeh was born in Tabriz, Iran. He has made significant contributions to the analytic philosophy of medicine. His international recognition came especially through his work on clinical logic and methodology, including fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence in medicine. He is the founding editor of the international journals Metamed, founded in 1977 (current title: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, published by Springer) and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, founded in 1989. Among his extensive work are the following innovative theories: theory of medicine, theory of fuzzy biopolymers, the prototype resemblance theory of disease, and theory of the Machina Sapiens.

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