Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing the logic and methodology of clinical decision-making, including artificial intelligence in medicine; 4. suggesting comprehensive theories of organism, life, and psyche; of health, illness, and disease; of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and therapy; and 5. investigating the moral and metaphysical issues central to medical practice and research. Many systems of (classical, modal, non-classical, probability, and fuzzy) logic are introduced and applied. Fuzzy medical deontics, fuzzy medical ontology, fuzzy medical concept formation, fuzzy medical decision-making and biomedicine and many other techniques of fuzzification in medicine are introduced for the first time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. - Part I The Language of Medicine. - 1 The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language. - 2 The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language. - 3 The Pragmatics of Medical Language. - 4 Medical Linguistics. - 5 Varieties of Medical Concepts. - 6 Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation. - Part II Medical Praxiology. - 7 The Patient. - 8 The Physician. - 9 Clinical Practice. - Part III Medical Epistemology. - 10 The Architecture of Medical Knowledge. - 11 Types of Medical Knowledge. - 12 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Medical Knowledge. - 13 Technoconstructivism. - Part IV Medical Deontics. - 14 Morality, Ethics, and Deontics. - 15 Disease as a Deontic Construct. - 16 Medicine is a Deontic Discipline. - Part V Medical Logic. - 17 Logic in Medicine. - 18 The Logic of Medicine. - Part VI Medical Artificial Intelligence. - 19 Medical Decision-Making. - 20 Clinical Decision Support Systems. - 21 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine? . - Part VII Medical Metaphysics. - 22 On What There Are. - 23 Medical Ontology. - 24 On Medical Truth. - 25 On the Nature of Medicine. - Part VIII Epilog. - 26 Science, Medicine, and Rationality. - 27 Perspectivism. - 28 The Doubter. - Part IX Logical Fundamentals. - 29 Classical Sets. - 30 Classical Logic. - 31 Modal Extensions of Classical Logic. - 32 Non-Classical Logics. - 33 Probability Logic. - 34 Fuzzy Logic. - References Index of Names. - Subject Index.
