Intuition in medicine
Subtitle: a philosophical defense of clinical reasoning
By: Hillel D. Braude
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780226071664
Subjects: Clinical medicine; Medical ethics; Intuition; Ethical intuitionism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intuition in medical and moral reasoning; title: Moral intuitionism; title: The place of Aristotelian phronesis in clinical reasoning; title: Aristotle's practical syllogism: accounting for the individual through a theory of action and cognition; title: Individual and statistical physiognomy: the art and science of making the invisible visible; title: Clinical intuition versus statistical reasoning; title: Contingency and correlation: the significance of modeling clinical reasoning on statistics; title: Abduction: the intuitive support of clinical induction; title: Conclusion: medical ethics beyond ontology.