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)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
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.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (34 chapters)
-
Medical Praxiology
-
Medical Epistemology
-
Medical Deontics
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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