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How scientists explain disease / Paul Thagard.

Title
How scientists explain disease / Paul Thagard.
Author
Thagard, Paul
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.

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Description
xviii, 263 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"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 book that develops a new, integrative approach to the study of science." "How Scientists Explain Disease challenges both traditional philosophy of science, which has viewed science as largely a matter of logic, and contemporary science studies that view science as largely a matter of power. Drawing on theories of distributed computing and artificial intelligence, Paul Thagard develops new models that make sense of scientific change as a complex system of cognitive, social, and physical interactions."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Diseases > Causes and theories of causation
  • Medicine > Research > Methodology
  • Medicine > Philosophy
  • Peptic ulcer > Etiology
  • Helicobacter pylori infections
  • Disease > history
  • Philosophy, Medical
  • Helicobacter Infections
  • Peptic Ulcer > etiology
  • Research
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Explanations -- Ch. 1. Explaining Science -- Ch. 2. Explaining Disease -- Pt. 2. The Bacterial Theory of Peptic Ulcers -- Ch. 3. Ulcers and Bacteria: Discovery -- Ch. 4. Ulcers and Bacteria: Acceptance -- Ch. 5. Ulcers and Bacteria: Instruments and Experiments -- Ch. 6. Ulcers and Bacteria: Social Interactions -- Pt. 3. Cognitive Processes -- Ch. 7. Causes, Correlations, and Mechanisms -- Ch. 8. Discovering Causes: Scurvy, Mad Cow Disease, AIDS, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- Ch. 9. Medical Analogies -- Ch. 10. Diseases, Germs, and Conceptual Change -- Pt. 4. Social Processes -- Ch. 11. Collaborative Knowledge -- Ch. 12. Medical Consensus -- Ch. 13. Science and Medicine on the Internet -- Pt. 5. Conclusion -- Ch. 14. Science as a Complex System.
ISBN
0691002614 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98034717^
OCLC
  • 39545854
  • SCSB-9967738
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library