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  • Heart of Science

    A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry

    de Jacob Stegenga ...
    A novel epistemology of science contends that good science need not attain its aims, but it must justify its claims.In Heart of Science, philosopher Jacob Stegenga breaks with the most dominant epistemologies of science to argue that in judging scientific activity, we should focus on its justification, not the achievement of truth or knowledge. Yet, Stegenga argues, the aim of science goes far ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Care & Cure

    An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

    de Jacob Stegenga ...
    The author of Medical Nihilism examines the philosophical complications and controversies underlying medicine.The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Medical Nihilism

    de Jacob Stegenga ...
    This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low. ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • Nihilisme médical

    de Jacob Stegenga ...
    Une démonstration très polémique en faveur d’un scepticisme radical à l’encontre de l’efficacité de la médecine contemporaine : voilà ce que propose le travail du philosophe des sciences médicales de Cambridge, Jacob Stegenga. Il s’appuie sur une connaissance fine des méthodes de recherche en médecine, analyse de nombreux exemples et rend enfin accessible un domaine réservé aux initiés, dont les ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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    Care and Cure

    An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

    de Jacob Stegenga ...
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    The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often complicated and controversial. Bringing much-needed clarity to the interplay of these diverse problems, Jacob Stegenga ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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    In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn’t so instinctively antibiological. She examines research on anti-depressants, placebos, transference, phantasy, eating disorders and ... Leer más

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  • Philosophy of Medicine

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  • The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease

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  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine

    Edición de Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon, Harold Kincaid ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine. It examines traditional topics such as the concept of disease, causality in medicine, the epistemology of the randomized controlled trial, the biopsychosocial model, explanation, clinical judgment and phenomenology of medicine and emerging topics, such as ... Leer más

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  • Theory and Reality

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition

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  • Objectivity

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  • Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

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