Philosophy of medicine / edited by Fred Gifford.
| Other author | Gifford, Fred. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/North Holland, |
| Description | x, 590 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Book - Biomedical Science and Medicine 2011 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Handbook of the philosophy of science ; v. 16 |
| Contents | Introduction / Fred Gifford -- Concepts of health and disease / Chirstopher Boorse -- Medical ontology / Jeremy R. Simon -- Theories and models in medicine / R. Paul Thompson -- Causal inference and medical experiments / Daniel Steel -- Patterns of medical discovery / Paul Thagard -- Evidence-based medicine / Robyn Bluhm and Kirstin Borgerson -- Group judgment and the medical consensus conference / Miriam Solomon -- Frequentist versus Bayesian clinical trials / David Teira -- Uncertainty in clinical medicine / Benjamin Djulbegovic, Iztok Hozo, Sander Greenland -- The logic of diagnosis / Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh -- Conceptual foundations of biological psychiatry / Dominic Murphy -- Brain death / Joh Lizza -- Nursing science / Mark Risjord -- Public health / Dean Rickles. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011499230 |
| ISBN | 9780444517876 |
| ISBN | 0444517871 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |