Overview
- Provides a comprehensive account of methodological and conceptual issues used to explain diseases in health sciences
- Contains specific examples and case studies from organic diseases and mental disorders
- Analyses open theoretical challenges from both biomedical research and clinical practice
Part of the book series: European Studies in Philosophy of Science (ESPS)
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This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine. Medicine has provided challenging case studies for the general philosophy of science that have prompted rethinking of a wide range of philosophical notions – such as scientific law, theory and evidence – and contributed to the elaboration of pluralistic approaches to modeling, causality and explanation. The health sciences have increasingly recognized the role of philosophy of medicine as both a field of conceptual and methodological reflection, capable of addressing practical issues, and hence relevant for a proper understanding of the construction of medical knowledge, modeling practices, therapeutic strategies and preventive decisions.
'Explaining Disease' contains various case studies in medicine to describe the assumptions underpinning the construction of explanatory models of diseases. It shows the impact different explanatory strategies can have on practical matters, which in turn affect clinical evaluation and therapy and public health decisions. The book concludes with a few open-ended reflections to foster more thorough consideration of the role of philosophy of medicine can play its dialogue with the health sciences.
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Keywords
- Philosophy Medicine
- Philosophy Public Health
- Models Explanation medicine
- Pluralism Health Sciences
- Explanatory Models Diseases
- Causation Medicine
- Pluralism Medicine
- Philosophy Mental Disorder
- epistemology medicine explanation
- construction medical knowledge
- philosophy of science medicine
- philosophy biomedicine
- philosophy clinical practice
- person based medicine reflection
- Causal explanation medicine
- functional explanation medicine
- non causal explanatoin medicine
- Modeling disease theory
- Describing disease theory
- Classifying disease theory
Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Raffaella Campaner is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies of the University of Bologna. She has worked extensively in philosophy of medicine, publishing a number of contributions in journals and collected volumes, as well as a previous monograph (Philosophy of Medicine. Causality, Evidence and Explanation, 2012). Her research interests include causation, mechanism, scientific explanation and different kinds of pluralism. She is currently working on epistemological issues in modeling complex diseases, and on approaches to explanation of mental disorders.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Explaining Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Medical Research and Clinical Practice
Authors: Raffaella Campaner
Series Title: European Studies in Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05883-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05882-0Published: 10 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05885-1Published: 10 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05883-7Published: 09 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2365-4228
Series E-ISSN: 2365-4236
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 205
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Epistemology, Psychiatry