Uncertainty and Explanation in Medicine and the Health Sciences

Olaf Dammann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 332 Seiten

2025
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-82270-4 (ISBN)

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This book offers a comprehensive account of how uncertainty is tackled in medicine and the health sciences. Olaf Dammann explores recent accounts of medicine as ineffective and suggests that the impression that medicine does not achieve its goal is, at least in part, due to the aleatoric (natural) uncertainty of biomedical processes and the subsequent epistemic (cognitive) uncertainty of those who desire solid information about such processes. Dammann shows how concepts like inference, explanation, and causometry help mitigate this disconnect. He points toward the possibility that some of the statistically rigid and formalized approaches (such as the randomized controlled trial as the gold standard for the justification of medical interventions) might better be replaced by approaches that emphasize the coherence of evidence and the people's needs for helpful health interventions (auxiliarianism).

Olaf Dammann is professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, USA. His main fields of research are philosophy of health science and perinatal epidemiology.

Chapter 1- Medical Skepticism.- Chapter 2- Medicine Is Not Science.- Chapter 3- Two Kinds of Uncertainty.- Chapter 4- Inference.- Chapter 5- Explanation.- Chapter 6- Causometry.- Chapter 7- Etiological Explanation.- Chapter 8- Etio-Prognostic Explanation.- Chapter 9- Evidence-Mapping.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2025
Zusatzinfo	XV, 332 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Schlagworte	Biosciences • Casual inference • Causation • etiology • Medicine • pathogenesis • Public Health
ISBN-10	3-031-82270-6 / 3031822706
ISBN-13	978-3-031-82270-4 / 9783031822704
Zustand	Neuware