Clinical Reasoning: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Values in Health Care

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-59096-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 58, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

Reihe: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics

This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature. With a clear philosophical emphasis, the book investigates themes lying at the border between several disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, logic, epistemology, and philosophy of science; but also ethics, epidemiology, and statistics. At the same time, it critically discusses and compares several professional approaches to clinical practice such as the one of medical doctors, nurses and other clinical practitioners, showing the need for developing a unified framework of reasoning, which merges methods andresources from many different clinical but also non-clinical disciplines. In particular, this book shows how to leverage nursing knowledge and practice, which has been considerably neglected so far, to further shape the interdisciplinary nature of clinical reasoning. Furthermore, a thorough philosophical investigation on the values involved in health care is provided, based on both the clinical and philosophical literature. The book concludes by proposing an integrative approach to health and disease going beyond the so-called “classical biomedical model of care”.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiffi, Daniele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Pflegeforschung, Pflegemanagement
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction:- Chapter 2: Foundations of Clinical Diagnosis.- Chapter 3: Probability in Clinical Diagnosis.- Chapter 4: Clinical Hypotheses in Diagnostic and Prognostic Reasoning.- Chapter 5: Prognosis in the Face of Uncertainty.- Chapter 6: On Clinical Possibility.- Chapter 7: The Epistemology of Placebo Effect.- Chapter 8: Nursing Knowledge and Values.