Discovery and Explanation in Biology and Medicine

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Scope and Aim of This Book2. Discovery in the Biomedical Sciences: Logic or Intuitive Genius (or Both)?3. Theories and "Laws" in Biology and Medicine4. The Logic and Methodology of Empirical Testing in Biology and Medicine5. Evaluation: Local and Global Approaches6. Explanation and Causation in Biology and Medicine: General Considerations7. Historicity, Historical Explanations, and Evolutionary Theory8. Functional Analysis and Teleological Explanation9. Reduction and Reductionism in Biology and Medicine10. Conclusion and Research Issues for the FutureNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth F. Schaffner
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.02.1994
• EAN: 9780226735924
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73592-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 154 mm x 39 mm
• Weight: 948 g
• Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S.; Science & Its Conceptual Found; Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S.; Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF (CHUP); Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF; Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine