| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-238) and index. |
| Summary |
"How Doctors Think" defines the nature and importance of clinical judgement. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science, but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms, and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical studies to construct a tentative account of the illness. "How Doctors Think" is divided into four parts. Part One introduces the concept of medicine as a practice rather than a science; Part Two discusses the idea of causation; Part Three delves into the process of forming clinical judgement; and Part Four considers clinical judgement within the uncertain nature of medicine itself. "How Doctors Think" contends that there can be adverse side effects to assuming that medicine is strictly science, and suggests reducing these by recognizing the vital role of clinical judgement. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Introduction: Rationality in an Uncertain Practice""; ""I. Medicine as a Practice""; ""1 Medicine and the Limits of Knowledge""; ""2 The Misdescription of Medicine""; ""3 Clinical Judgment and the Interpretation of the Case""; ""II. Clinical Judgment and the Idea of Cause""; ""4 “What Brings You Here Today?�: The Idea of Cause in Medical Practice""; ""5 The Simplification of Clinical Cause""; ""6 Clinical Judgment and the Problem of Particularizing""; ""III. The Formation of Clinical Judgment""; ""7 Aphorisms, Maxims, and Old Saws: Some Rules of Clinical Reasoning"" |
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""8 “Don�t Think Zebras�: A Theory of Clinical Knowing""""9 Knowing One�s Place: The Evaluation of Clinical Judgment""; ""IV. Clinical Judgment and the Nature of Medicine""; ""10 The Self in Medicine: The Use and Misuse of the Science Claim""; ""11 A Medicine of Neighbors""; ""12 Uncertainty and the Ethics of Practice""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Decision making.
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Medicine -- Decision making. |
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Medicine -- Philosophy. |
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Clinical medicine -- Practice.
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Clinical medicine. |
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Decision Making. |
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Judgment. |
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Clinical Medicine. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Montgomery, Kathryn, 1939- How doctors think. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0195187121 (DLC) 2005040591 (OCoLC)58452493 |
| ISBN |
9780199748228 (electronic book) |
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0199748225 (electronic book) |
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1280533129 |
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9781280533129 |
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0195187121 (cloth) |
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