How Doctors Think
Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine
ISBN13: 9780195187120ISBN10: 0195187121
Hardback,
256 pages
Oct 2005,
In Stock
Price:
$39.99 (05)Table of Contents
PART I.
MEDICINE AS A PRACTICE
1.
Medicine and the Limits of Knowledge
2.
The Misdescription of Medicine
PART II.
CLINICAL JUDGMENT AND THE IDEA OF CAUSE
3.
Clinical Judgment and the Interpretation of the Case
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
PART III.
THE FORMATION OF CLINICAL JUDGMENT
7.
Aphorisms, Maxims, and Old Saws: Some Rules of Clinical Reasoning
8.
"Don't Think Zebras": A Theory of Clinical Knowing
9.
Knowing One's Place: The Evaluation of Clinical Judgment
PART 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
