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
