Diagnosis - A Guide for Medical Trainees

Diagnosis is a practically-oriented guide to the complex reasoning, observations, and judgment that health professionals draw on to make a clinical diagnosis.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgments


• Preface


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Setting the Stage


• Chapter 2: Testing


• Chapter 3: Decision-Making


• Chapter 4: Handling Uncertainty


• Chapter 5: Avoiding Over- and Under-Diagnosis


• Chapter 6: Practicing Diagnostic Justice


• Conclusion


• References

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ashley Graham Kennedy, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. Her research focuses on applied issues in medicine, science, and global justice.

Zusammenfassung

Diagnosis is a practically-oriented guide to the complex reasoning, observations, and judgment that health professionals draw on to make a clinical diagnosis.

Zusatztext

Diagnosis generates many significant and interesting philosophical problems which have been long due for a high-level treatment. This book should be required reading and will be a landmark event in the philosophy of medicine.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ashley Graham Kennedy, Ashley (Associate Professor of Phi Graham Kennedy, Ashley (Associate Professor of Philosophy Graham Kennedy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780190060411
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006041-1
• Seiten: 152
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Klinische Fächer; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Clinical & internal medicine, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Clinical and internal medicine, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics