Reasoning in Medicine - An Introduction to Clinical Inference

Albert, Daniel A. (MD); Munson, Ronald and Resnik, Michael D.

ISBN 10: 0801834260 / ISBN 13: 9780801834264

Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1988

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VERY SCARCE copy of this work which is focused on reasoning in clinical medicine. Discusses orientation; a case report; clinical data; inductive inference; deductive inference; hypotheses, laws and theories; the concept, classification and discovery of diseases; diagnosing; and decision making and patient management. 263 pages. Seller Inventory # 060765

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Title: Reasoning in Medicine - An Introduction to ...

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

Daniel A. Albert, Ronald Munson, Michael D. Resnik

About the Author:

Daniel A. Albert, M.D. is Professor Medicine and Pediatrics and Chief of Rheumatology at the Dartmouth Institute of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He has published numerous papers on rheumatologic disorders in adults and children, as well as articles on various conceptual issues in medicine and on the use of decision analysis in making diagnostic and management decisions. Ronald Munson, Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Medicine at the University of Missouri—St. Louis. In addition to articles on the philosophy of biology and medicine, his publications include Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society, The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine, and Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Bioethics. His is also the author of the novels Nothing Human, Fan Mail, Night Vision, and The Harvard Game. Michael D. Resnik, Ph. D. is Emeritus University Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has published numerous articles on logic and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as the books Frege and the Philosophy of Mathematics, Choices: An Introduction to Decision Theory, Mathematical Objects and Mathematical Knowledge, and Mathematics as a Science of Patterns.