Research Catalog

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 pages : illustrations; 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
• Research
• Peptic Ulcer > etiology
• Helicobacter Infections
• Research
• Philosophy, Medical
• research (function)
• 44.02 philosophy and ethics of medicine
• Diseases > Causes and theories of causation
• Helicobacter pylori infections
• Medicine > Philosophy
• Medicine > Research > Methodology
• Peptic ulcer > Etiology
• Medizin
• Forschungsergebnis
• Wissenschaftsentwicklung
• Nosologie
• Gastroduodenalkrankheit
• Ätiologie
• Helicobacter-pylori-Infektion
• Akzeptanz
• Ziekten
• Verklaring
• Étiologie
• Médecine > Philosophie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) 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
• 9780691002613
• 069105083X
• 9780691050836

LCCN

98034717

OCLC

• ocm39545854
• 39545854
• SCSB-9717351

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library