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Classification, Disease and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Book 7) by Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert; Silberstein, Marc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? (d) How do we assess and choose cure/ therapy? The book is divided into three sections: classification, disease, and evidence. In general, attention is focused on statistics in medicine and epidemiology, issues in psychiatry, and connecting medicine with evolutionary biology and genetics. Many authors position the theories that they address within their historical contexts. The nature of health and disease will be addressed in several essays that also touch upon very general questions about the definition of medicine and its status. Several chapters scrutinize classification because of its centrality within philosophical problems raised by medicine and its core position in the philosophical questioning of psychiatry. Specificities of medical explanation have recently come under a ne
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- Author
- Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert; Silberstein, Marc
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789401788878
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Social Science
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