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Patient Safety

The Relevance of Logic in Medical Care

Alexander Gungov (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2018
ibidem (Verlag)
978-3-8382-1213-5 (ISBN)

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In our time of well-publicized health care travails, in the USA and the UK and elsewhere, matters of financing too often subsume the dimension of patient care. In his latest book, Alexander L. Gungov studies a vital but neglected aspect of patient safety. Of the thousands of medical errors committed on a daily basis, in the bulk of unfortunate clinical decisions, a significant share pertains to various logical flows and epistemological fallacies. By focusing on the logical dimensions of clinical medicine, Gungov promotes awareness of the logical and epistemological traps that lie in the day-to-day care of patients. Such a focus not only allows us to avoid falling into them, but demonstrates the practical value of looking at medicine from a new philosophical perspective. That perspective involves a broad and unusual collection of philosophers. The discussion takes its starting point from J. S. Mill’s inductive methods and Giambattista Vico’s verum-factum principle, but then sets out a unique combination of Charles Sanders Peirce’s abductive reasoning, Immanuel Kant’s reflective judgment, as well as G. W. F. Hegel’s and D. P. Verene’s speculative thinking, all marshalled to present a novel philosophical account of clinical diagnostics. Interpretation of practical examples elucidate the logical aspect of medical errors and suggests strategies of overcoming them. The book as a whole demonstrates the value of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutical insights into the enigmatic character of health. This much-needed book will be of interest to medical practitioners, health policy-makers, patients and their families, and to advanced students and scholars in medicine, the medical humanities, medical epistemology, and the philosophy of medicine in general.

Alexander L. Gungov is Professor of Logic and Continental Philosophy at the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski" and Director of the M.A. and Ph.D. Program in Philosophy Taught in English. He is the author of Logic of Deception and Logic in Medicine (both in Bulgarian). Dr. Gungov is the Editor of Sofia Philosophical Review.

“Professor Gungov’s book is a unique contribution to the understanding of the interconnections of logic, philosophy, and medicine. Proper treatment of disease requires proper diagnosis. Diagnosis is more than the observation of symptoms. The symptoms must be formed into a narrative that employs the principles of logic. Gungov shows how this sense of diagnosis rightly involves Vico’s principle that ‘the true is the made’ as well as the Vichian concept of the ‘imaginative universal.’ He contrasts Vico’s approach to causality with that incorporated in Mill’s famous methods of induction. He relates induction to Peirce’s method of abduction and to the art of medical hermeneutics with attention to the views of Gadamer. Gungov’s discussion is vivified at every point with specific examples from medicine. His work always raises the right questions. It is necessary reading for anyone studying or practicing medicine as well as specialists in the philosophy of medicine.”
Thora Ilin Bayer
Professor of Philosophy, Xavier University, New Orleans

Erscheinungsdatum	08.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Medical Philosophy
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Alexander Gungov, Friedrich Luft
Übersetzer	Tatiana Tzarvulanova
Verlagsort	Hannover
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	176 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
Schlagworte	Medical philosophy • Medicine • Medizin • Medizinische Philosophie • Patientensicherheit • patient safety
ISBN-10	3-8382-1213-4 / 3838212134
ISBN-13	978-3-8382-1213-5 / 9783838212135
Zustand	Neuware