1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00105958

Autore

BEHNK, Frida

Titolo

Grammatik der Texte aus El Amarna / Frida Behnk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Geuthner, 1930

Descrizione fisica

72 p. ; 28 cm

Disciplina

493.1

Soggetti

FILOLOGIA MESOPOTAMICA - TESTI - AMARNA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910992772203321

Autore

Dammann Olaf

Titolo

Uncertainty and Explanation in Medicine and the Health Sciences / / by Olaf Dammann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

9783031822711

3031822714

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 332 p. 5 illus.)

Disciplina

610.1

Soggetti

Medicine - Philosophy

Metaphysics

Epidemiology

Social medicine

Clinical health psychology

Philosophy of Medicine

Medical Sociology

Health Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1- Medical Skepticism -- Chapter 2- Medicine Is Not Science -- Chapter 3- Two Kinds of Uncertainty -- Chapter 4- Inference -- Chapter 5- Explanation -- Chapter 6- Causometry -- Chapter 7- Etiological Explanation -- Chapter 8- Etio-Prognostic Explanation -- Chapter 9- Evidence-Mapping.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a comprehensive account of how uncertainty is tackled in medicine and the health sciences. Olaf Dammann explores recent accounts of medicine as ineffective and suggests that the impression that medicine does not achieve its goal is, at least in part, due to the aleatoric (natural) uncertainty of biomedical processes and the subsequent epistemic (cognitive) uncertainty of those who desire solid information about such processes. Dammann shows how concepts like inference, explanation, and causometry help mitigate this disconnect. He points toward the possibility that some of the statistically rigid and formalized approaches (such as the randomized controlled trial as the gold standard for the justification of medical interventions) might better be replaced by approaches that emphasize the coherence of evidence and the people’s needs for helpful health interventions (auxiliarianism). Olaf Dammann is professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, USA. His main fields of research are philosophy of health science and perinatal epidemiology. .