Huneman, Philippe (Editor)
Lambert, Gérard (Editor)
Silberstein, Marc (Editor)
Springer
Physical Details: xx + 211 pp.; bibl.
Language: English
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?0The 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.
...MoreReview Brendan Clarke (2016) Review of "Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 87-90).
Review Sholl, Jonathan (2015) Review of "Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (pp. 339-341).
Chapter Cunningham, Thomas V. (2015) Objectivity, Scientificity, and the Dualist Epistemology of Medicine. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 1-17).
Chapter Lemoine, Maël (2015) The Naturalization of the Concept of Disease. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 19-41).
Chapter Murphy, Dominic (2015) What Will Psychiatry Become?. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 43-61).
Chapter Demazeux, Steeves (2015) The Function Debate and the Concept of Mental Disorder. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 63-91).
Chapter Méthot, Pierre-Olivier (2015) Emerging Disease and the Evolution of Virulence: The Case of the 1918--1919 Influenza Pandemic. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 93-130).
Chapter Singy, Patrick (2015) Power, Knowledge, and Laughter: Forensic Psychiatry and the Misuse of the Misuse of the DSM. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 131-145).
Chapter Dekeuwer, Catherine (2015) Defining Genetic Disease. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 147-164).
Chapter Coste, Joël (2015) Causal and Probabilistic Inferences in Diagnostic Reasoning: Historical Insight into the Contemporary Debate. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 165-178).
Chapter Giroux, Élodie (2015) Risk Factor and Causality in Epidemiology. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 179-192).
Chapter Stegenga, Jacob (2015) Herding QATs: Quality Assessment Tools for Evidence in Medicine. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 193-211).
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