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Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 113)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2260-6

ISBN: 978-94-007-2259-0

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Aug 31, 2011

1 - 10 of 30 Chapters

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The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 11 –28

[“I feel really embarrassed about this, but I have this sudden burning and pressing in the left side of my chest”, the patient Dorothy McNeil said. “You know, doctor, my daughter’s pregnant. She’s not married, just 17 years old. My husband had an accident a few years back and can’t work. He’s...
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The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 29 –50

[When did you last say to someone that you had a headache? Did the listener understand what you meant? If you now reply “yes”, how do you know that? Perhaps she usually means by the term “headache” something different than you do. How can we find out whether or not this assumption is true?]
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The Pragmatics of Medical Language

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 51 –56

[Our brief sketch of the problematic character of the traditional semantic conception of meaning has demonstrated that meaning cannot be separated from the role the users of a language play in their communication with one another. One of the features of this role is the control of the language...
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Varieties of Medical Concepts

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 57 –80

[As a science and practice of health care with responsibilities for individual and social health affairs, medicine has many objectives including the following ones: (1) to analyze and describe the human body and soul in order to obtain knowledge about human health, illness, and diseases as well...
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Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 81 –106

[The remarkable skill with which children intuitiviely use spoken language demonstrates that knowledge of semantics is not a necessary condition for fluently speaking a language. However, the sensible and responsible use of language in a science such as medicine requires more than intuitive...
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The Patient

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 109 –272

[Medicine is concerned with the treatment of sick people, the promotion and protection of health, and the prevention of maladies and human suffering. This wide-ranging task is accomplished through medical practice and medical research, though no sharp boundary between them can be drawn. For the...
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The Physician

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 273 –274

[In Western culture, human medicine has evolved as a healing profession, and as such, it is oriented toward curing sick people, caring for sick people, preventing maladies, and promoting health. This orientation is primarily centered around the healing relationshiphealing relationship, a...
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Clinical Practice

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 275 –380

[Clinical practiceclinicalpractice is where the clinical encounter occurs. It constitutes the focus of medicine. Since the time of Hippocrates, it has been composed of five activities. They are fundamental features of the healing relationship and have come to be known as anamnesisanamnesis, i.e.,...
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The Architecture of Medical Knowledge

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 383 –442

[Fragmentary medical-epistemological thoughts are put forward in medical journals and books every day. But there is as yet no medical epistemology as an established area of inquiry. As a result, no methodology is available to instruct us about how to conduct medical epistemology. To establish a...
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Types of Medical Knowledge

Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem

Pages: 443 –458

[The axiomatization of theories by set-theoretical predicates in the preceding chapter demonstrated that a theory cannot be, and is not, knowledge. Like a building or machine, a scientific theory T is a relational structure.]

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