The Concepts Of Illness Disease And Morbus

Author : F. Kraupl Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979-06-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521224330

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The Concepts of Illness, Disease and Morbus by F. Kraupl Taylor Pdf

Dr Taylor's book analyses the disease concept as it developed in medical history and seeks to clarify it with the help of concepts largely derived from logical class theories. A solution is proposed to the problem of how to distinguish between the class of 'patients' and the class of 'healthy persons' which corresponds to the actual diagnostic practices of doctors. The earliest theories of disease postulated concrete entities which exist independently of the body. The notion of disease entity has lost its original ontological connotations and instead its important feature has become the possession of a unitary and self-contained character. Dr Taylor describes the modern theories as essentially 'reactive' in character, that is the symptoms of a disease are the bodily reactions to the 'noxae'. After seeing the subject in its historical content, Dr Taylor goes on to discuss in detail the notion of the classification of diseases, making extensive use of modern views on the logic of classes.

Author : Harmon C. Bickley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Diseases
ISBN : 0683009125

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Practical Concepts in Human Disease by Harmon C. Bickley Pdf

Author : Miriam Solomon,Jeremy R. Simon,Harold Kincaid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317519850

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine by Miriam Solomon,Jeremy R. Simon,Harold Kincaid Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine. It examines traditional topics such as the concept of disease, causality in medicine, the epistemology of the randomized controlled trial, the biopsychosocial model, explanation, clinical judgment and phenomenology of medicine and emerging topics, such as philosophy of epidemiology, measuring harms, the concept of disability, nursing perspectives, race and gender, the metaphysics of Chinese medicine, and narrative medicine. Each of the 48 chapters is written especially for this volume and with a student audience in mind. For pedagogy and clarity, each chapter contains an extended example illustrating the ideas discussed. This text is intended for use as a reference for students in courses in philosophy of medicine and philosophy of science, and pairs well with The Routledge Companion to Bioethics for use in medical humanities and social science courses.

Author : L.Y Nordenfelt,B.I.B Lindahl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789400962835

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Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine by L.Y Nordenfelt,B.I.B Lindahl Pdf

On May 13-15, 1982, some 50 scientists and scholars - physicians, philos ophers and social scientists - convened at Hasselby Castle in Stockholm for the first Nordic Symposium on the Philosophy of Medicine. The topics for the symposium included (1) the concepts of health and disease, (2) classification in medicine, and (3) causality and causal explanations in medicine. The majority of the participants were Scandinavian but the symposium was also able to welcome four distinguished guests from other parts of the world, Professors Stuart F. Spicker and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., U.S.A., Dr Anne M. Fagot, France, and Dr Werner Morbach, West Germany. The latter represented Professor Kazem Sadegh-zadeh, who unfortunately was prevented from attending. One of the main purposes of this symposium was to bring together people in Scandinavia who at present work within the field of Philosophy of Medi cine. This group is still relatively small but is growing rapidly, and the scholarly activity has recently been notable. This fact is clearly demonstrated by the presentation of 'Philosophy of Medicine in Scandinavia' in the Appendix of this volume.

Author : William C Cockerham
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 4477 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128037089

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International Encyclopedia of Public Health by William C Cockerham Pdf

International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second Edition, Seven Volume Set is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this new edition combines complementary scientific fields of inquiry, linking biomedical research with the social and life sciences to address the three major themes of public health research, disease, health processes, and disciplines. This book helps readers solve real-world problems in global and local health through a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. Covering all dimensions of the field, from the details of specific diseases, to the organization of social insurance agencies, the articles included cover the fundamental research areas of health promotion, economics, and epidemiology, as well as specific diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and reproductive health. Additional articles on the history of public health, global issues, research priorities, and health and human rights make this work an indispensable resource for students, health researchers, and practitioners alike. Provides the most comprehensive, high-level, internationally focused reference work available on public health Presents an invaluable resource for both researchers familiar with the field and non-experts requiring easy-to-find, relevant, global information and a greater understanding of the wider issues Contains interdisciplinary coverage across all aspects of public health Incorporates biomedical and health social science issues and perspectives Includes an international focus with contributions from global domain experts, providing a complete picture of public health issues

Author : O. S. Miettinen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789400711716

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Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts by O. S. Miettinen Pdf

The book is organized so as to address in separate sections first the preparatory topics of medicine (clinical and epidemiological), science in general, and statistics (mathematical); then topics of epidemiological research proper; and, finally, topics of ‘meta-epidemiological’ clinical research. In those two main sections, a further grouping is based on the distraction between objects and methods of study. In this framework, the particular topics are addressed both descriptively and quasi-prescriptively, commonly with a number of explicatory annotations. This book is intended to serve as a handbook for whomever is, in whatever way, concerned with epidemiological or ‘meta-epidemiological’ clinical research. But besides this, it is also intended to serve as a textbook for students in introductory courses on ‘epidemiological’ research – to which end there is a suggested hierarchy of the concepts that might reasonably be covered.

Author : L.Y Nordenfelt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401577687

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On the Nature of Health by L.Y Nordenfelt Pdf

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory. What emerges from the study is a concept of health based on an action-theoretic foundation. A person's health is characterized as his ability to achieve his vital goals. The general conception is not new. This study has been inspired by a number of scholars, both ancient and modern. The most important influences from the latter have been those of Georges Canguilhem, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. , Caroline Whitbeck and Ingmar Pörn. The novel aspect of this book consists of elaborations made to the general conception. First, the action-theoretic platform is analysed in some detail. The nature of the ability involved, as well as the conditions for having that ability, are specified. Second, the vital goals of man are given considerable attention. Some previous attempts to define such vital goals are analysed and criticized. A new characterization is proposed, in which the vital goals are conceptually linked to the notion of happiness. A person's vital goals are such states of affairs as are necessary and together sufficient for his minimal happiness. Third, a number of consequences of this con ception are observed and analysed. One issue which is particularly empha sized is that ofwhether the concept ofhealth is a theoretical or a normative concept.

Author : Mark S. Micale
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691605616

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Approaching Hysteria by Mark S. Micale Pdf

What does this burgeoning corpus of writing tell us? Why, in recent years, has the history of hysterical disorders carried such resonance for commentators in the sciences and humanities? What can we learn from the textual traditions of hysteria about writing the history of disease in general? What is the broader cultural meaning of the new hysteria studies? In the second half of the book, Micale discusses the many historical "cultures of hysteria." He reconstructs in detail the past usages of the hysteria concept as a powerful, descriptive trope in various nonmedical domains, including poetry, fiction, theater, social thought, political criticism, and the arts. His book is a pioneering attempt to write the historical phenomenology of disease in an age preoccupied with health, and a prescriptive remedy for writing histories of disease in the future.

Author : Lawrie Reznek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000579413

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The Nature of Disease by Lawrie Reznek Pdf

Originally published in 1987, this book is about the classification of bodily conditions into diseases. It provides a full account of the concept of disease, examining the issue of whether disease status is something we discover or invent and the issue of whether disease attributions involve implicit value judgements. It investigates whether bodily conditions fall into natural kinds and whether these debates can be settled by discovering whether there are any natural boundaries dividing conditions into diseases and non-diseases. It considers whether the notion of disease is an evaluative notion or whether judgements about disease status are purely descriptive. The issue of whether other cultures with different values are justified in making different disease judgements is also discussed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004418677

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Clio Medica. Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae, Vol. 17 by Anonim Pdf

As periodical of the International Academy of the History of Medicine, this Clio Medica volume contains 12 papers.

Author : William E. Stempsey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401141604

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Disease and Diagnosis by William E. Stempsey Pdf

The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center. At the time, I had inklings that the test results churned out by our laboratories were more than scientific facts. As a philosophically unsophisticated young physician, however, I had no language or framework to analyze what I saw as a deep philosophical problem, a problem largely unrecognized by most physicians. The test results provided by our laboratories were accurate and of great practical importance for patient care. However, most of the physicians who relied on our test results to diagnose and treat their patients either did not have the time or interest to consider the philosophical issues inherent in diagnosis, or, like me, had inadequate means to further analyze them. It was more than ten years later that I began doctoral studies in philosophy, and I was fortunate to find a faculty that was supportive of my efforts to address the problem. This book began as my doctoral dissertation in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. I would like to acknowledge the assistance of my mentor, Robert Veatch, Ph. D. Our conversations during my Georgetown years led me in new and often fascinating directions. I would also like to acknowledge the help of Kenneth Schaffner, M. D. , Ph. D.

Author : Ann G. Carmichael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107634367

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Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence by Ann G. Carmichael Pdf

Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael develops two related strands of analysis. First, she discusses the extent to which true plague epidemics may have occurred, by considering what other infectious diseases contributed significantly to outbreaks of 'pestilence'. She finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics. She then shows how the differences in the plague reshaped the attitudes of Italian city-dwellers toward plague in the fifteenth century. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of the plague, Renaissance Italy and the history of medicine.

Author : Brian Nance
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004333437

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Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque Physician by Brian Nance Pdf

For fifty years, Theodore Turquet de Mayerne served as a royal physician in France and then in England. Historians have long recognised him as a brilliant practitioner and chemical Galenist, but this book is the first major study of his remarkable Latin casebooks, the ‘Ephemerides Morborum’ (Diaries of Disease).

Author : Eric J. Cassell Clinical Professor of Public Health Cornell University Medical College
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-10-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780198021940

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The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine by Eric J. Cassell Clinical Professor of Public Health Cornell University Medical College Pdf

The Nature of Suffering underscores the change that is taking place in medicine from a basic concern with disease to a greater focus on the sick person. Cassell centers his discussion on the problem of suffering because, he says, its recognition and relief are a test of the adequacy of any system of medicine. He describes what suffering is and its relationship to the sick person: bodies do not suffer, people do. An exclusive concern with scientific knowledge of the body and disease, therefore, impedes an understanding of suffering and diminishes the care of the suffering patient. The growing criticism that medicine is not sufficiently humanistic does not go deep enough to provide a basis for a new understanding of medicine. New concepts in medicine must have their basis in its history and in the development of ideas about disease and treatment. Cassell uses many stories about patients to demonstrate that, despite the current dominance of science and technology, there can be no diagnosis, search for the cause of the patient's disease, prognostication, or treatment without consideration of the individual sick person. Recent trends in medicine and society, Cassell believes, show that it is time for the sick person to be not merely an important concern for physicians but the central focus of medicine. He addresses the exciting problems involved in such a shift. In this new medicine, doctors would have to know the person as well as they know the disease. What are persons, however, and how are doctors to comprehend them? The kinds of knowledge involved are varied, including values and aesthetics as well as science. In the process of knowing the experience of patient and doctor move to center stage. He believes that the exploration of the person will engage medicine in the 21st century just as understanding the body has occupied the last hundred years.

Author : Simon R. Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052102904X

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The Child's World of Illness by Simon R. Wilkinson Pdf

This book discusses the languages of illness which we use to present our discomforts to others through an exploration of the child's world of illness. It looks at how illness concepts are introduced to children, how the causes of illness and 'germ' rationales are incorporated into the socialisation of children, and how a particular morality about health and illness is expressed.