Book ID: CBB001510440

Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (2015)

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Huneman, Philippe (Editor)
Lambert, Gérard (Editor)
Silberstein, Marc (Editor)


Springer


Publication Date: 2015
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.

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Reviewed By

Review 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). unapi

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). unapi

Includes Chapters

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). unapi

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). unapi

Chapter Murphy, Dominic (2015) What Will Psychiatry Become?. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 43-61). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

Chapter Dekeuwer, Catherine (2015) Defining Genetic Disease. In: Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 147-164). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Halverson, Colin Michael Egenberger
M. Cristina Amoretti
Maieron, Mario Augusto
Pezzoni, Barbara
Gorini, Ilaria
Campaner, Raffaella
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Psychiatry
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Epistemology
Genetics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Premodern
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Italy
Levant and Near East
Mediterranean region
East Asia
Switzerland
Belgium
Institutions
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
World Health Organization (WHO)
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