Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh – Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine (2nd edition, 2015)

Автор: Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Название книги: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine (2nd edition)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Экономика и Организация здравоохранения
Страницы: 1232
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-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

This is a book for those who understand it, or are willing to do so, but
not for those who don’t understand it. So, reviews and public comments by
members of the latter category are unwelcome. The volume is a carefully
revised and considerably enlarged new edition. Type-setting errors and other
bugs have been corrected and three flawed figures have been redrawn. Other
changes made include some stylistic amendments and the following additions
and expansions, which have increased the number of parts from VIII to IX,
of chapters from 30 to 34, of figures by 4, of tables by 2, and of pages by 91:
Added:
• Sections 3.4–3.5: The Pragmatic Impact of Medical Language + The
Communal Origin of Medical Language (pp. 58–59),
• Chapter 4: Medical Linguistics (pp. 61–68),
• Subsection 17.4.4: Probabilistic Networks (pp. 626–627),
• Part VI: Medical Artificial Intelligence (pp. 709–743).
Expanded:
• Subsubsection “Free will”: (pp. 156–162),
• Section 9.1.2: Dynamic, Branching Clinical Questionnaires (301–312),
• Section 17.3: Modal Logics in Medicine (pp. 614–619),
• Subsection 17.5.4: Fuzzy Logic in Biomedicine (pp. 665–683),
• Section 24.3: Misdiagnoses (pp. 821–826),
• Chapter 27: Perspectivism (pp. 875–884),
• Subsection 33.1.5: Bayes’s Theorem (pp. 1050–1053),
• Subsection 34.2.4: Degrees of Fuzziness and Clarity (pp. 1079–1083),
• Section 34.5: Summary (pp. 1114–1120).