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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"philosophy of medicine"”.
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Bridging the gap between populations and individuals in the philosophy of medicine
… between populations and individuals in the philosophy of medicine. There is a long-standing tension in the fact that randomised, controlled trials in clinical populations count among the best evidence in medicine, while the goal of medical practice is to help individual patients who may …
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Ludwik Fleck and his concept of a scientific fact
In this thesis, I explore the concept of a scientific fact through the work of Polish physician Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961). Fleck has had an alleged influence upon contemporary philosophy of science, primarily through the work of Thomas Kuhn with subsequent echoes from the direction of the sociology …
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Medical Virtue in Contemporary Practice: Has COVID-19 Reawakened Virtue in the Modern Medical Encounter?
… healthcare system, leading medical professionals to reevaluate priorities and redefine their professional identities. Focusing particularly on the meaning of care in the physician-patient relationship, this thesis develops an argument for the type of medical practice that incorporates …
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Predicting the Effectiveness of Medical Interventions
… several conceptual and methodological features of medical science that influence our ability to accurately predict medical effectiveness. Making reliable predictions about the effectiveness of medical treatments is crucial to mitigating death and disease and improving individual and population …
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Clarifying the concept of disease: how science determines the biologically normal from the abnormal
This is an investigation of the modern concept of disease and an explication of the concept consistent with scientific and medical usage. The core notion involved in the modern concept of disease (taken broadly as pathology) is biological abnormality in form or function, for a circumscribed …
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The Limits of Screening
… obscures a deeper and different set of issues. The central claim is that understanding and justifying cancer screening requires attention to its moral dimensions. Ethical issues arise throughout the debate— not only in constructing a theory of effectiveness, but also in deciding …
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The Prospects of Personalising Medicine
Personalised Medicine (PM) is touted as a medical revolution where medical treatment and diagnosis is tailored to the individual patient so that it is optimal, safe, and exactly appropriate. Each chapter in this dissertation deals with the conceptual, methodological, epistemic, or ethical issues of …
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Communicating Cancer: From Concepts to Care
This dissertation examines a series of conceptual and communicative challenges in contemporary cancer medicine centred around precision oncology, an approach which seeks to individualise cancer treatment using genomic biomarkers. Chapter 1 introduces precision oncology, proposing a definition that …
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A Multinational Study of the Etiology and Clinical Teleology of Moral Evaluations of Patient Behaviors
<p>This dissertation is a collection of four studies which collectively explore a hypothesized construct of ‘moral evaluation of patient behaviors’ (MEPB) as a driver of health professionals’ readiness to interact humanistically with their patients. In these studies, ‘humanistic interactions’ refer …
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The Therapist as Scientist: A Philosophical Appraisal of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of contemporary psychotherapy, presents itself as "scientific" and "evidence-based", particularly in contrast with its predecessor, psychoanalysis. This scientific image has shaped CBT on a number of levels. For example, the …