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Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh

Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine

 

Table of Contents

The book consists of 9 Parts and 1 + 34 Chapters. This table displays the contents up to level 2 only, i.e., parts and chapters. Levels 3-6 (sections, subsections, subsubsections, paragraphs) are too complex and may be studied live. For more details, see Contents.

Foreword  VII
Preface to the Second Edition  IX
Preface to the First Edition       X

0.  Introduction  1

Part I   The Language of Medicine
1.  The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language   11
2.  Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language  31
3.  The Pragmatics of Medical Language  53
4.  Medical Linguistics  61
5.  Varieties of Medical Concepts  69
6.  Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation  93

Part II   Medical Praxiology
7.   The Patient        121
8.   The Physician     291
9.   Clinical Practice  293

Part III   Medical Epistemology
10.  The Architecture of Medical Knowledge  401
11.  Types of Medical Knowledge  463
12.  The Semantics and Pragmatics of Medical Knowledge  479
13.  Technoconstructivism  551

Part IV   Medical Deontics
14.  Morality, Ethics, and Deontics    575
15.  Disease as a Deontic Construct  587
16.  Medicine is a Deontic Discipline  597

Part V   Medical Logic
17.  Logic in Medicine  607
18.  The Logic of Medicine  699

Part VI   Medical Artificial Intelligence
19.  Medical Decision Making  709
20.  Clinical Decision Support Systems  715
21.  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine?  733

Part VII   Medical Metaphysics
22.  On What There are  747
23.  Medical Ontology  773
24.  On Medical Truth  819
25.  On the Nature of Medicine  829

Part VIII   Epilog
26.  Science, Medicine, and Rationality  855
27.  Perspectivism  875
28.  The Doubter  885

Part IX   Logical Fundamentals
29.  Classical Sets  891
30.  Classical Logic 915
31.  Modal Extensions of Classical Logic  977
32.  Non-Classical Logics  1029
33.  Probability Logic 1039
34.  Fuzzy Logic  1065

References  1121
Index of Names  1173
Subject Index  1185-1224

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