Philosophy Of Medicine: An Introduction

Philosophy of medicine: its scope and subject matter -- Defining health and disease -- Theories and models in medicine -- Materialism and reductionism in science and medicine -- Probability and randomness -- Causality and induction -- Randomised controlled trials and study design -- Some central measures in clinical medicine -- Reasoning in clinical practice: prevention, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, palliation and rehabilitation -- Medicine from first-person perspectives: phenomenology, narrative of knowledge and qualitative approaches to knowledge creation and use in medicine -- Neurosciences and diseases of the mind -- The varieties of modern medicine: evolutionary medicine, evidence-based medicine, precision and personalised medicine, alternative medicines and managing epidemics

• | Author: R. Paul Thompson, Ross Upshur
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Aug 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 194 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0415501091
• | ISBN-13: 9780415501095