A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease
This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to): Paying less attention to patients who are suffering with symptoms because no identifiable pa...
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| description | This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to): Paying less attention to patients who are suffering with symptoms because no identifiable pathological lesion or pathophysiological process can be found. Paying too much attention to patients who are not suffering with symptoms because pathological lesions or pathophysiological processes have been found. The tendency to understand patients at risk of developing pathology as being diseased. The tendency to disregard the importance of wider societal consequences of definitions of disease and health. The book shows that many of these problems are related to what disease and health are considered to be and argues that these problems can be addressed by reconsidering the concepts of health and disease employed in practice. It argues for a pragmatic reconceptualization of health and disease that allows clinicians, researchers, and lay people to understand health and disease in many ways, depending on the specific context in which they find themselves and the problems they are trying to solve. In doing so, authors are careful to show how this pragmatism does not endorse “silly” forms of relativism, in which knowledge is reduced to belief or to whatever people find expedient to believe. This work is relevant for philosophers and historians a well as for doctors, health policy makers and other health professionals because it addresses problems sourced from medical practice, albeit using philosophical and historical methods. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1433102024-08-27T04:35:24Z A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease Schermer, Maartje Binney, Nicholas Philosophy of medicine Pragmatism Pluralism Concepts of health and disease History of medicine Illness Symptoms Suffering Risk-based conditions Persistent-patient-symptoms Illness-without-disease Alzheimer's Disease Diabetes Positive health thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conduct thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bioethics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to): Paying less attention to patients who are suffering with symptoms because no identifiable pathological lesion or pathophysiological process can be found. Paying too much attention to patients who are not suffering with symptoms because pathological lesions or pathophysiological processes have been found. The tendency to understand patients at risk of developing pathology as being diseased. The tendency to disregard the importance of wider societal consequences of definitions of disease and health. The book shows that many of these problems are related to what disease and health are considered to be and argues that these problems can be addressed by reconsidering the concepts of health and disease employed in practice. It argues for a pragmatic reconceptualization of health and disease that allows clinicians, researchers, and lay people to understand health and disease in many ways, depending on the specific context in which they find themselves and the problems they are trying to solve. In doing so, authors are careful to show how this pragmatism does not endorse “silly” forms of relativism, in which knowledge is reduced to belief or to whatever people find expedient to believe. This work is relevant for philosophers and historians a well as for doctors, health policy makers and other health professionals because it addresses problems sourced from medical practice, albeit using philosophical and historical methods. 2024-08-27T04:35:23Z 2024-08-27T04:35:23Z 2024-08-13T07:37:43Z 2024 book ONIX_20240813_9783031622410_23 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92687 9783031622410 9783031622403 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/143310 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92687/1/978-3-031-62241-0.pdf Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-62241-0 10.1007/978-3-031-62241-0 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 7a45a1b1-431f-4784-8bc1-8985a1aeb53f 9783031622410 9783031622403 Springer International Publishing 325 Cham [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | Philosophy of medicine Pragmatism Pluralism Concepts of health and disease History of medicine Illness Symptoms Suffering Risk-based conditions Persistent-patient-symptoms Illness-without-disease Alzheimer's Disease Diabetes Positive health thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conduct thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bioethics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease |
| title | A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease |
| title_full | A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease |
| title_fullStr | A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease |
| title_short | A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease |
| title_sort | pragmatic approach to conceptualization of health and disease |
| topic | Philosophy of medicine Pragmatism Pluralism Concepts of health and disease History of medicine Illness Symptoms Suffering Risk-based conditions Persistent-patient-symptoms Illness-without-disease Alzheimer's Disease Diabetes Positive health thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conduct thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bioethics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues |
| topic_facet | Philosophy of medicine Pragmatism Pluralism Concepts of health and disease History of medicine Illness Symptoms Suffering Risk-based conditions Persistent-patient-symptoms Illness-without-disease Alzheimer's Disease Diabetes Positive health thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conduct thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bioethics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues |
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