ISBN:
9789401795791
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXXVIII, 1224 p. 120 illus, online resource)
Edition:
2nd ed. 2015
Series Statement:
Philosophy and Medicine 119
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem Handbook of analytic philosophy and medicine
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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medicine Philosophy
;
Medicine
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Bioinformatics
;
Philosophy
;
Philosophy (General)
;
medicine Philosophy
;
Medicine
;
Bioinformatics
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; Introduction; 0.1 A Fresh Start; 0.2 The Objective; 0.3 The Subject; 0.4 Methods of Inquiry; 0.5 How to Read this Book; Part I The Language of Medicine; 1 The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 Types of Knowledge; 1.2 Propositional Knowledge; 1.3 Propositions and Facts; 1.4 Medical Sentences and Statements; 1.5 Medical Concepts; 1.6 How to Care About our Medical Concepts?; 1.7 Summary; 2 The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language; 2.0 Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
2.1 Medical Language is an Extended Natural Language2.2 What a Medical Term Means; 2.3 Ambiguity; 2.4 Vagueness; 2.4.1 The Nature of Vagueness; 2.4.2 The Sorites Paradox; 2.4.3 Varieties of Vagueness; 2.5 Clarity and Precision; 2.6 Semantic Nihilism; 2.7 Summary; 3 The Pragmatics of Medical Language; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 The So-Called Language Games; 3.2 Assertion, Acceptance, and Rejection; 3.3 Speech Acts in Medicine; 3.3.1 Constatives; 3.3.2 Performatives; 3.4 The Pragmatic Impact of Medical Language; 3.5 The Communal Origin of Medical Language; 3.6 Summary; 4 Medical Linguistics
Description / Table of Contents:
4.0 Introduction4.1 What Medical Linguistics is; 4.2 Vocabularies; 4.3 Medical Terminologies; 4.3.1 Medical Nomenclatures; Anatomical nomenclatures; Nosological nomenclatures; 4.3.2 International Classification of Diseases (ICD); 4.3.3 Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED); 4.3.4 GALEN, GRAIL, UMLS, MeSH, et al.; 4.4 Summary; 5 Varieties of Medical Concepts; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Qualitative, Comparative, and Quantitative Concepts; 5.1.1 Individual Concepts; 5.1.2 Qualitative Concepts; 5.1.3 Comparative Concepts; 5.1.4 Quantitative Concepts; 5.2 Dispositional Terms in Medicine
Description / Table of Contents:
5.3 Linguistic and Numerical Variables in Medicine5.4 Non-Classical; 5.5 Summary; 6Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation; 6.0 Introduction; 6.1 What a Definition is; 6.2 What Role a Definition Plays; 6.3 Methods of Definition; 6.3.1 Explicit Definition; 6.3.2 Conditional Definition; 6.3.3 Operational Definition; 6.3.4 Definition by Cases; 6.3.5 Recursive Definition; 6.3.6 Set-Theoretical Definition; 6.3.7 Ostensive Definition; 6.4 What an Explication is; 6.4.1 What: Quod; 6.4.2 Is; 6.5 Summary; Part II Medical Praxiology; 7The Patient; 7.0 Introduction; 7.1 The Suffering Individual
Description / Table of Contents:
7.2 The Bio-Psycho-Social Agent7.2.0 Introduction; 7.2.1 The Living Body; 7.2.2 The Psyche; 7.2.3 The Social Agent; 7.2.4 Summary; 7.3 Health, Illness, and Disease; 7.3.0 Introduction; 7.3.1 Disease; 7.3.2 Health; 7.3.3 Illness; 7.3.4 Disease, Health, and Illness Violate Classical Logic; 7.3.5 Summary; 7.4 Systems of Disease; 7.4.0 Introduction; 7.4.1 Symptomatology; 7.4.2 Nosological Systems; 7.4.3 Pathology; 7.4.4 Nosological Spaces; 7.4.5 Summary; 7.5 Etiology; 7.5.0 Introduction; 7.5.1 Cause and Causation; 7.5.2 Deterministic Etiology; 7.5.3 Probabilistic Etiology; 7.5.4 Fuzzy Etiology
Description / Table of Contents:
7.5.5 Summary
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-017-9579-1
