| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 178 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction : The Challenge of Uncertainty in Medicine -- The Nature and Etiology of Uncertainty -- The Anatomy of Uncertainty -- The Natural History of Uncertainty -- The Management of Uncertainty -- A Way Forward : Systematizing Uncertainty Tolerance |
| Summary |
"Introduces the topic of medical uncertainty and discusses its importance in human life. It argues that medical uncertainty is a critically important but historically neglected experience of both clinicians and patients, and that COVID-19 pandemic and other recent events have raised the need to better understand and manage it. The chapter makes the case for the value of a conceptual framework in helping clinicians and patients to better understand, manage, and ultimately tolerate the uncertainties they experience, and provides an overview of the book"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed January 14, 2022) |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Uncertainty -- Health aspects
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Medical care.
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Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- Philosophy
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Philosophy, Medical
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Uncertainty
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Delivery of Health Care
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Patient Care
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Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- Philosophy
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Medicine -- Philosophy
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Uncertainty
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021004842 |
| ISBN |
9780190270612 |
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0190270616 |
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9780190270605 |
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0190270608 |
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9780190270599 |
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0190270594 |
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