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Beschreibung
How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical studies to construct a tentative account of the illness.
How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical studies to construct a tentative account of the illness.
Über den Autor
Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • PART I. MEDICINE AS A PRACTICE

  • 1. Medicine and the Limits of Knowledge

  • 2. The Misdescription of Medicine

  • PART II. CLINICAL JUDGMENT AND THE IDEA OF CAUSE

  • 3. Clinical Judgment and the Interpretation of the Case

  • 4. "What Brings You Here Today?": The Idea of Cause in Medical Practice

  • 5. The Simplification of Clinical Cause

  • 6. Clinical Judgment and the Problem of Particularizing

  • PART III. THE FORMATION OF CLINICAL JUDGMENT

  • 7. Aphorisms, Maxims, and Old Saws: Some Rules of Clinical Reasoning

  • 8. "Don't Think Zebras": A Theory of Clinical Knowing

  • 9. Knowing One's Place: The Evaluation of Clinical Judgment

  • PART IV. CLINICAL JUDGMENT AND THE NATURE OF MEDICINE

  • 10. The Self in Medicine: The Use and Misuse of the Science Claim

  • 11. A Medicine of Neighbors

  • 12. Uncertainty and the Ethics of Practice

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Importe, Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199942053
ISBN-10: 0199942056
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mongtomery, Kathryn
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Kathryn Mongtomery
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2012
Gewicht: 0,401 kg
Artikel-ID: 120650544

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