LEADER 05138nam 22006975 450 001 9910484749603321 005 20230810235059.0 010 $a94-017-8887-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-017-8887-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000262447 035 $a(EBL)1968530 035 $a(OCoLC)893675525 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001372562 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11824353 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001372562 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11305028 035 $a(PQKB)11184060 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-017-8887-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1968530 035 $a(PPN)182095681 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000262447 100 $a20141015d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClassification, Disease and Evidence $eNew Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine /$fedited by Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert, Marc Silberstein 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (227 p.) 225 1 $aHistory, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,$x2211-1956 ;$v7 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-017-8886-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aIntroduction -- Evolutionary Models of Virulence: Concepts, History and Current Applications; Alizon, Sam and Méthot, Pierre Olivier.-Objectivity, Scientificity and the Dualist Epistemology of Medicine; Cunningham; Thomas -- The Function Debate and the Concept of Mental Disorder; Steeves, Demazeux -- Defining genetic disease; Dekeuwer; Catherine -- Causal and probabilistic inferences in diagnostic reasoning: casting a historical light onto the current debates; Coste, Joël -- Risk factor and causality in epidemiology; Giroux, Elodie -- The naturalization of the concept of disease; Lemoine, Mael -- The Epistemology of Mental Illness; Dominic Murphy -- Power, Knowledge and Laughter: Forensic Psychiatry and the misuse of the DSM; Singy, Patrick -- Quality Assessment Tools for Evidence in Medicine; Stegenga, Jacob. 330 $aThis anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? (d) How do we assess and choose cure/ therapy?   The book is divided into three sections:  classification, disease, and evidence. In general, attention is focused on statistics in medicine and epidemiology, issues in psychiatry, and connecting medicine with evolutionary biology and genetics. Many authors position the theories that they address within their historical contexts.   The nature of health and disease will be addressed in several essays that also touch upon very general questions about the definition of medicine and its status.  Several chapters scrutinize classification because of its centrality within philosophical problems raised by medicine and its core position in the philosophical questioning of psychiatry. Specificities of medical explanation have recently come under a new light, particularly because of the rise of statistical methods, and several chapters investigate these methods in specific contexts such as epidemiology or meta-analysis of random testing. Taken together this collection addresses the question of how we gather, use and assess evidence for various medical theories.   The rich assortment of disciplines featured also includes epidemiology, parasitology, and public health, while technical aspects such as the application of game theory to medical research and the misuse of the DSM in forensic psychiatry are also given an airing. The book addresses more than the construction of medical knowledge, however, adding cogent appraisal of the processes of decision making in medicine and the protocols used to justify therapeutic choices. 410 0$aHistory, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,$x2211-1956 ;$v7 606 $aBiology$xPhilosophy 606 $aBioethics 606 $aMedicine$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy of Biology 606 $aBioethics 606 $aHistory of Medicine 615 0$aBiology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aBioethics. 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Biology. 615 24$aBioethics. 615 24$aHistory of Medicine. 676 $a610.1 702 $aHuneman$b Philippe$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aLambert$b Gérard$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aSilberstein$b Marc$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484749603321 996 $aClassification, Disease and Evidence$92846058 997 $aUNINA