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Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine : Principles and Procedures
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book is the first to develop explicit methods for evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the field of medicine. It explains why it can be important to make this evidence explicit, and describes how to take such evidence into account in the evidence appraisal process. In addition, it develops procedures for seeking evidence of mechanisms, fo…
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- 978-3-319-94610-8
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- XVIII, 125
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- Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine : Principles and Procedures
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- 610 PAR e
The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-74443-4
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- XXII, 555
Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers: Issues at Stake and Matters of Concern
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings where precision oncology is practiced, enacted, imagined or discussed. It subsequently discusses and analyses bioethical dilemmas, scientific c…
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- Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology
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- XIV, 281
A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease
This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to): Paying less attention to patients who are suffering with symptoms because no identifiable pathological lesion or pathophysiological process can be found. Paying too much attention to pa…
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- Volume 151
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- 9783031622403
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Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine
Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh (born 23 April 1942) is an analytic philosopher of medicine. He studied medicine and philosophy at the German universities of Münster, Berlin, and Göttingen with Internship and residency 1967-1971, assistant professor 1972-1982, full professor of philosophy of medicine at the University of Münster 1982-2004. Sadegh-Zadeh was born in Tabriz, Iran. He has made significant co…
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- 978-94-017-9578-4
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- XXXVIII, 1224
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- 610 SAD h
Trust and Incidents The Dynamic of Interpersonal Trust between Patients and …
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to conceptualise interpersonal trust between patients and medical practitioners, Katja Beitat introduces a unique model to describe the dynamics of trust building and deterioration with particular relevance to incidents in health care. Empirical findings from studies in Australia and Germany, the two systems focused on in this book, broadly support and expan…
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- 978-3-658-09670-0
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The DSM-5 in Perspective
Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DSM-5, marked the latest milestone in the history of the DSM and of American psychiatry. In The DSM…
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- 978-94-017-9765-8
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- XXIV, 238
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- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Medicine as a Scholarly Field: An Introduction
This book exposes, and fills, a notable void in the educational content generally covered in modern schools of medicine. It provides an introduction to the field at large in terms of content that is relevant for each of the specialties and subspecialties of medicine; and to this end, it addresses the modern counterpart of the Hippocratic philosophy that was at the root of the genesis of modern …
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- 978-3-319-19011-2
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- XVI, 136
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- Medicine as a Scholarly Field: An Introduction
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Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: ‘liberal’ eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics, disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and disability, and the sense of the subject of bioethical inquiry itself. All of the…
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- 978-94-017-9869-3
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- VIII, 323
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- Philosophy and Medicine
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Family-Oriented Informed Consent East Asian and American Perspectives
This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research. The goal is critically to explore the current individually oriented approach to informed consent which grew out of the dominant bioethics movement that arose in the United States in the 1970s. In contrast to that individually oriented approach, this volume explores the importance o…
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- 978-3-319-12120-8
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- XII, 288
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