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229 p. ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Dedication -- List of Illustrations -- A Word From the Author -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 Uses of Philosophy in Medical Practice and Research -- 1.1 Leitmotif and Core Concept -- 1.1.1 Logic -- 1.1.2 Critical Thinking and the Human Understanding Process -- 1.1.3 Note Concerning Critical Appraisal and Critical Thinking -- 1.1.4 Virtues of a Good Critical Thinker in Medicine: Desirable Knowledge, Attitudes, Skills -- 1.2 Basic Vocabulary and Definitions. Vignettes as Reminders and Summaries -- 1.2.1 Why So Many Definitions? -- 1.2.2 Overview of Frequently Used Terms in the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Their Definition -- 1.2.3 Basic Definitions of Philosophy and Logic in General and in Medicine -- 1.2.4 Basic Definitions of Mental Processes -- 1.2.5 Fundamental Definitions In Evidence-Based Clinical Medicine -- 1.2.6 Fundamental Definitions in Evidence-Based Preventative and Community Medicine and Public Health -- 1.2.7 Basic Terms In Biostatistics -- 1.2.8 Four Fundamental Branches of Philosophy Defined -- 1.2.9 Branches, Trends, Domains and Applications of Philosophy of Special Interest to Medicine -- 1.3 Exercises, Questions, and Puzzles -- Exercise 1.3.1 Health Problems as Seen by Different Thinkers and Caregivers -- Exercise 1.3.2 Risk Assessment in Epidemiology and Medicine as Seen by Philosophers/Logicians/Critical Thinkers -- Exercise 1.3.3 Challenge And Problem of Diagnosis as Seen by Philosophers/Logicians/Critical Thinkers -- Exercise 1.3.4 Treatment as Seen By Philosophers/Logicians/Critical Thinkers -- Exercise 1.3.5 Prognosis and Ensuing Clinical Decisions as Seen by Philosophers/Logicians/Critical Thinkers -- Exercise 1.3.6 Reasoning About a Clinical Problem in a Patient as Seen by Philosophers/Logicians/Critical Thinkers -- Exercise 1.3.7 Assessment Of A Clinical Message From A Colleague As Seen By Philosophers/Logicians/Critical Thinkers -- 1.4 Conclusions and Resolution of the Clinical Scenario -- References -- Chapter 2 Writing and Talking About Experiences and Research -- 2.1 Leitmotif and Core Concept -- 2.1.1 Arguments in Medicine as an Exercise in Critical Thinking -- 2.1.2 Vertical Thinking in Medical Problem Solving -- 2.1.3 Lateral Thinking in Medical Problem Solving -- 2.1.4 Types of Argumentation -- 2.1.5 Other Graphical Visualizations as Tools to Improve Logical and Critical Thinking: Argument Maps and Concept Maps -- 2.1.6 A Note About Fallacies -- 2.2 Vignettes: Basic Vocabulary and Definitions, Synopses, Reminders, and Summaries -- 2.2.1 Fundamental Prerequisites and Assessment Criteria of the Cause-Effect Relationship -- 2.2.2 Basic Definitions of Argument and Argumentation in General, and of Argument in Medicine -- 2.2.3 Components of a ¿Classical¿ (Aristotle¿s) Categorical Syllogism -- 2.2.4 Basic Components of a ¿Modern¿ Argument (Toulmin¿s Model of Reasoning) -- 2.2.5 Expanded Components of Toulmin¿s Model for Original Research Studies of Causation in Medicine -- 2.2.6 Steps in the Reconstruction of a Categorical Syllogism From the Natural Language in Written or Spoken Message in Medicine -- 2.2.7 Steps in the Reconstruction of the Modern (Toulmin¿s) Argument From the Natural Language in a Report of Research or Practical Clinical Experience -- 2.2.8 Summary of the Paradigm and Characteristics of Lateral Thinking -- 2.2.9 Differing Salient Characteristics of Vertical and Lateral Thinking -- 2.2.10 Steps in Critical Thinking About a Medical Problem -- 2.2.11 Critical Appraisal and Logic and Critical Thinking Appraisal -- 2.3 Critical Thinking Pertaining to a Medical Research Article: Reconstructing Arguments From the Natural Language of Written or Spoken Medical Communication -- 2.4 Exercises, Questions, and Puzzles -- Exercise 2.4.1 Vertical and Lateral Thinking in Research and in the Practice of Medicine -- Exercise 2.4.2 Identifying Some Important Fallacies in Casual Reasoning -- Exercise 2.4.3 Discussion and Conclusions in a Medical Article as an Exercise in Argumentation -- Exercise 2.4.4 Research Grant Applications as a Practical Use of Argumentation -- 2.5 Conclusions: The Missing Link Leading to Critical Appraisal -- References -- Chapter 3 Sharing And Discussing Your Experiences With Colleagues and Other Health Professionals -- 3.1 Leitmotif and Core Concept -- 3.1.1 Dialogue Between Health Professionals as Argumentation -- 3.1.2 Overview of the Classical and Modern Arguments -- 3.1.3 Plain Daily Language in the Medical Argument -- 3.1.4 Note About Fallacies -- 3.2 Vignettes -- 3.2.1 Architecture of a Clinical Report With Possible Location of the Building Blocks of an Argument -- 3.2.2 Building Blocks of an Argument in the Clinician¿s Natural Language: An Example -- 3.2.3 Mental Processes, Types Of Reasoning And Pathways Of Thinking Underlying Diagnosis Making -- 3.2.4 Paradigms, Mental Processes, Types of Reasoning, and Pathways of Thinking Underlying Risk Assessment in the Patient -- 3.2.5 Paradigms, Mental Processes, and Types of Reasoning Underlying Treatment Evaluation and Decisions Regarding a Patient -- 3.2.6 Paradigms, Mental Processes, and Types Of Reasoning Underlying Prognosis Makingi a Patient -- 3.3 Illustrative Medical Articles -- 3.3.1 Discussing a Single Clinical Case -- 3.3.2 Choosing Between Two New Technology Options in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Surgery -- 3.4 Other Exercises: Some Important Fallacies and How to Identify and Correct Them -- 3.4.1 Clinical Scenario -- 3.4.2 Question-Begging Expressions -- 3.4.3 Unwarranted Assumption Fallacies -- 3.4.4 Attraction to Novelties -- 3.4.5 Fallacy of Authority -- 3.4.6 Make Your Own Example and Try to Solve It -- 3.5 Possible Future Trends and Still Untested Territories of Logic in Medical Practice -- 3.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 Talking to Patients and Patients Talking to Us: Clinical Consultation as Narrative And Argumentation -- 4.1 Leitmotif And Core Concept -- 4.1.1 Particularities of the Objectives of Physician-Patient Communication -- 4.1.2 Particularities of the Nature of Physician-Patient Communication -- 4.1.3 Clinical Consultation as a Logical Argument -- 4.1.4 Clinical Consultation as a Narrative -- 4.1.5 Patient-Physician Communication as a Source of Research and Better Understanding of Disease and Care -- 4.1.6 Argumentation as a Source Of Diagnosis -- 4.1.7 Some Sources of Errors Affecting Patient-Physician Dialogue -- 4.1.8 Argumentation as a Way of Finding Errors in Clinical Practice -- 4.1.9 Note About Fallacies. Fallacious Arguments snd Rhetorical Ploys in Physician-Patient Communication -- 4.2 Vignettes -- 4.2.1 Components of the Clinical Consultation as a Narrative And Argument -- 4.2.2 Purposes of Language Used By Physicians and Their Patients In Clinical Consultation -- 4.2.3 Components of Clinical Consultation as Parts of aA Logical Argument -- 4.2.4 Consultation as a Narrative -- 4.2.5 Fallacies vs Rhetorical Ploys Defined -- 4.2.6 Physician Skills Needed for an Evidence-Based Medicine¿Oriented Patient Consultation -- 4.3 Medical Article Illustrative of Challenges in Clinical Consultation (Seeing a Patient): Communicating Evidence for Participatory Decision Making -- 4.4 Other Exercises and Practical Problem Solving -- Exercise 4.4.1 Overdoing It With Your Patient -- Exercise 4.4.2 Trying to Impress Your Patient -- Exercise 4.4.3 Your Patient Seeks Reassurance About Advertising -- Exercise 4.4.4 Satisfying the Curiosity of Your Web-Surfing Patient Impressed by ¿Significance¿ -- Exercise 4.4.5 Helping You and Your Patient Understand What Are You Talking About -- Exercise 4.4.6 Explaining to the Patient His or Her Faulty Reasoning -- Exercise 4.4.7 A ¿Because It Works¿ Fallacy and its ¿Because It Worked for Me¿ Offshoot -- 4.5 Conclusions: Future Research to Consider -- References -- Chapter 5 Discussing Health Problems With Outsiders: Law, Administration, Governments, and Other Stakeholders in Public Health -- 5.1 Leitmotif and Core Concept -- 5.1.1 How We Define Things -- 5.1.2 Purposes of Argumentation -- 5.1.3 Various Argument Building Blocks -- 5.1.4 Argumentation Errors to Recognize, Consider, and Avoid, and Problems to Face -- 5.1.5 Challenges in Applying General Knowledge to Specific Patients and Situations -- 5.1.6 Examples of Challenges in the Understanding of and Decisions About Emerging Health Problems in the Contemporary World -- 5.1.7 Implications for Litigation and Other Communication and Exchanges of Information Within the General Community -- 5.1.8 Proposing, Defending, and Exchanging Information About Health Programsi The Community -- 5.1.9 Evidence Used -- 5.1.10 Fallacies in Legal and Other ¿Within The Community¿ Reasoning and Communication -- 5.2 Vignettes -- 5.2.1 What Do We Discuss in a ¿Case¿? Health Topics as Argument Triggers -- 5.2.2 How Do We Define Evidence? -- 5.2.3 Definition of an Argument In Medicine -- 5.2.4 Steps in Thinking Critically -- 5.2.5 Which Building Blocks Can be Hidden In Natural Language? -- 5.2.6 Syndrome vs Diagnostic Category of Disease Defined -- 5.2.7 Types of Dialogue And Exchanges of Ideas -- 5.2.8 Levels and Types of Prevention -- 5.2.9 Phases of a Health Program -- 5.2.10 Information Required for Meaningful Discussion on Priorities in Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention -- 5.3 Commented Medical Article Illustrating Challenges of Evidence in Health Tort Litigations -- 5.3.1 Understanding this Article as an Argument -- 5.3.2 Cause-Effect Relationship From an Ep |
| Summary |
"A detailed look at how to refine, expand, use, and apply logic and critical thinking to the practice of medicine"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Interprofessional Relations
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Physician-Patient Relations
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Philosophy, Medical
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Philosophy, Medical
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Physician-Patient Relations
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Medical logic
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Critical thinking
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Logic
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Logic
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Thinking
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Medicine -- Philosophy
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| LC no. |
2005032867 |
| ISBN |
1579477755 |
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9781579477752 |
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