Kathryn Mongtomery

How Doctors Think

Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780199942053
• ISBN-10: 0199942056
• Artikelnr.: 47869268

Autorenporträt

Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University

Inhaltsangabe

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