How Scientists Explain Disease /

How Scientists Explain Disease / / Paul Thagard.

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 pathbreaking book that develo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Thagard, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©1999
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE: EXPLANATIONS
  • Chapter 1. Explaining Science
  • Chapter 2. Explaining Disease
  • PART TWO: THE BACTERIAL THEORY OF PEPTIC ULCERS
  • Chapter 3. Ulcers and Bacteria: Discovery
  • Chapter 4. Ulcers and Bacteria: Acceptance
  • Chapter 5. Ulcers and Bacteria: Instruments and Experiments
  • Chapter 6. Ulcers and Bacteria: Social Interactions
  • PART THREE: COGNITIVE PROCESSES
  • Chapter 7. Causes, Correlations, and Mechanisms
  • Chapter 8. Discovering Causes: Scurvy, Mad Cow Disease, AIDS, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • Chapter 9. Medical Analogies
  • Chapter 10. Diseases, Germs, and Conceptual Change
  • PART FOUR: SOCIAL PROCESSES
  • Chapter 11. Collaborative Knowledge
  • Chapter 12. Medical Consensus
  • Chapter 13. Science and Medicine on the Internet
  • PART FIVE: CONCLUSION
  • Chapter 14. Science as a Complex System
  • References
  • Index

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