TY - BOOK ID - 4869068 TI - Classification, Disease and Evidence : New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine AU - Huneman, Philippe. AU - Lambert, Gérard. AU - Silberstein, Marc. PY - 2015 SN - 9789401788878 9401788863 9789401788861 9401788871 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophy of Biology. KW - Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. KW - History of Medicine. KW - Philosophy (General). KW - Biology KW - Medicine. KW - Medical ethics. KW - Biologie KW - Médecine KW - Ethique médicale KW - Philosophie KW - Biology_xPhilosophy. KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Biology - General KW - Medicine KW - History. KW - Medical logic KW - Biology-Philosophy. KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Clinical ethics KW - Ethics, Medical KW - Health care ethics KW - Medical care KW - Bioethics KW - Professional ethics KW - Nursing ethics KW - Social medicine KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Health Workforce KW - Biology—Philosophy. KW - Medicine—History. KW - Bioethics. KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Science KW - Vitalism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4869068 AB - This 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. ER -