| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Explanations. Ch. 1. Explaining Science. Ch. 2. Explaining Disease -- Pt. 2. The Bacterial Theory of Peptic Ulcers. Ch. 3. Ulcers and Bacteria: Discovery. Ch. 4. Ulcers and Bacteria: Acceptance. Ch. 5. Ulcers and Bacteria: Instruments and Experiments. Ch. 6. Ulcers and Bacteria: Social Interactions -- Pt. 3. Cognitive Processes. Ch. 7. Causes, Correlations, and Mechanisms. Ch. 8. Discovering Causes: Scurvy, Mad Cow Disease, AIDS, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Ch. 9. Medical Analogies. Ch. 10. Diseases, Germs, and Conceptual Change -- Pt. 4. Social Processes. Ch. 11. Collaborative Knowledge. Ch. 12. Medical Consensus. Ch. 13. Science and Medicine on the Internet -- Pt. 5. Conclusion. Ch. 14. Science as a Complex System |
| Summary |
How do scientists develop new explanations of disease? How do those explanations become accepted as true? And how does medical diagnosis change when physicians are confronted with new scientific evidence? These are some of the questions that Paul Thagard pursues in this book that develops a new, integrative approach to the study of science. How Scientists Explain Disease challenges both traditional philosophy of science, which has viewed science as largely a matter of logic, and contemporary science studies that view science as largely a matter of power. Drawing on theories of distributed computing and artificial intelligence, Paul Thagard develops new models that make sense of scientific change as a complex system of cognitive, social, and physical interactions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index |
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Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation.
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Helicobacter pylori infections.
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Medicine -- Research -- Methodology
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Peptic ulcer -- Etiology
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Causation.
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Research.
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Helicobacter pylori.
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Causality
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Research
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Philosophy, Medical
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Helicobacter pylori
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Peptic Ulcer -- etiology
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Helicobacter Infections
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research (function)
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General.
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MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL / Diseases.
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MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL / Internal Medicine.
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Research
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Helicobacter pylori
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Causation
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Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation
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Helicobacter pylori infections
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Medicine -- Philosophy
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Medicine -- Research -- Methodology
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Peptic ulcer -- Etiology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98034717 |
| ISBN |
0691002614 |
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9780691002613 |
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9780691187303 |
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0691187304 |
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069105083X |
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9780691050836 |
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