Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine

<p>Introduction.- Part I The Language of Medicine.- 1 The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language.- 2 The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language.- 3 The Pragmatics of Medical Language.- 4 Medical Linguistics.- 5 Varieties of Medical Concepts.- 6 Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation.- Part II Medical Praxiology.- 7 The Patient.- 8 The Physician.- 9 Clinical Practice.- Part III Medical Epistemology.- 10 The Architecture of Medical Knowledge.- 11 Types of Medical Knowledge.- 12 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Medical Knowledge.- 13 Technoconstructivism.- Part IV Medical Deontics.- 14 Morality, Ethics, and Deontics.- 15 Disease as a Deontic Construct.- 16 Medicine is a Deontic Discipline.- Part V Medical Logic.- 17 Logic in Medicine.- 18 The Logic of Medicine.- Part VI Medical Artificial Intelligence.- 19 Medical Decision-Making.- 20 Clinical Decision Support Systems.- 21 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine?.- Part VII Medical Metaphysics.- 22 On What There Are.- 23 Medical Ontology.- 24 On Medical Truth.- 25 On the Nature of Medicine.- Part VIII Epilog.- 26 Science, Medicine, and Rationality.- 27 Perspectivism.- 28 The Doubter.- Part IX Logical Fundamentals.- 29 Classical Sets.- 30 Classical Logic.- 31 Modal Extensions of Classical Logic.- 32 Non-Classical Logics.- 33 Probability Logic.- 34 Fuzzy Logic.- References Index of Names.- Subject Index.                                               </p>