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| 505 | 8 | |a Ch. 1. Medical sciences in the age of synthesis. 1.1. Professional practice and stochastic medical reasoning. 1.2. Health: The fundamental roles of space-time and uncertainty. 1.3. Abstract and concrete modes of thinking. 1.4. Issues of sound medical decision-making. 1.5. Medical dialectics and knowledge synthesis: An outline -- ch. 2. Reasoning amidst uncertainty. 2.1. When "to know" means "to be uncertain of". 2.2. The space-time domain of stochastic medical reasoning. 2.3. In situ logic and uncertain mind states. 2.4. SMR's view of medical connectives: Beyond drug digestion. 2.5. Natural laws and scientific models. 2.6. Substantive conditionals in medical thinking. 2.7. The object language-metalanguage connection -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ch. 3. The role of probability. 3.1. How much understanding is sufficient in medical investigations? 3.2. Space-time probabilities of medical cases. 3.3. Probabilities of medical conditionals. 3.4. Stochastic medical inferences. 3.5. Probability, uncertainty and information of diagnoses or prognoses sets. 3.6. Diagnosis ranking and symptom confirmation strength. 3.7. The trouble with medical probability. 3.8. Translating medical assertions into probabilistic terms. 3.9. Space-time reasoning dynamics. 3.10. Medical syllogisms involving likelihood ratios. 3.11. Summing up: Checking the validity of medical arguments. 3.12. Self-referential medical assertions and cognitive favorability. 3.13. Not just a set of guidelines -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ch. 4. Space-time medical mapping and causation modeling. 4.1. Techniques with a "health warning" 4.2. Space-time disease mapping. 4.3. Modeling space-time infectious disease spread. 4.4. Space-time causation revisited. 4.5. Medical causation in the SMR inference setting. 4.6. Causation in terms of integrative space-time prediction. 4.7. Causation justification and the dualistic opposition -- ch. 5. Looking ahead. 5.1. An Ibsenian transformation. 5.2. SMR and divergence of rationality in medical thinking. 5.3. Challenges emerging from the incompleteness principle and unanticipated knowledge. 5.4. Information technology-based medical reasoning. 5.5. Social and cultural dimensions of medical thinking. 5.6. Quod iacet ante? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought. For example, the technical complexity of an environmental exposure experiment may overshadow the logical assumptions made when moving from one phase of the experiment to the next, or the study of population risk assessment may focus on analytical and computational matters, whereas methodological and cultural factors are neglected. This book helps health investigators structure their thinking so that they avoid logical mistakes and argument pitfalls, and also gain new insights about reality, improve their awareness of the environment and context within which one's thinking takes place | |
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Contents
Preface xi
Chapter 1. Medical Sciences in the Age of Synthesis 1
1.1 Professional Practice and Stochastic Medical Reasoning .... 1
1.1.1 Synthesis in medical sciences..............................1
1.1.2 Environmental health and geomedicine..................5
1.1.3 On ancient Greek and Chinese medicine................9
1.1.4 Decision-making in conditions of in situ
uncertainty..................................................12
1.1.5 A brief note on logical thinking in ancient
Greece and China..........................................14
1.1.6 Enter stochastic medical reasoning ......................16
1.2 Health: The Fundamental Roles of Space-Time
and Uncertainty....................................................19
1.3 Abstract and Concrete Modes of Thinking......................23
1.4 Issues of Sound Medical Decision-Making........................25
1.4.1 Key elements of a medical investigation..................26
1.4.2 Reflection, recognition primed decision and robust
decision methods..........................................30
1.4.3 Algorithmic medical decision-making methods..........33
1.4.4 Does expert knowledge translate into
expert judgment?...............................34
1.5 Medical Dialectics and Knowledge Synthesis: An Outline ... 36
Chapter 2. Reasoning Amidst Uncertainty 39
2.1 When To Know Means To Be Uncertain OF ................39
2.1.1 Common medical reasoning errors........................39
2.1.2 Physician s language and metalanguage..................42
2.1.3 The notion of knowledge base............................44
2.2 The Space-Time Domain of Stochastic Medical Reasoning . . 47
2.2.1 Location-time coordinates and metric....................47
2.2.2 The spatiotemporal random field model..................51
2.3 In Situ Logic and Uncertain Mind States........................53
2.3.1 How much a health care provider does not know:
Ontic and epistemic uncertainty..........................54
2.3.2 Appreciating case individuality and legal disputes ... 56
2.3.3 Case communication uncertainty: Entitled to their
own opinions but not to their own facts..................58
2.3.4 Formal vs. in situ logic....................................60
2.3.5 From state of nature to state of mind (assertion) ... 63
2.3.6 Ranking of assertion forms................................71
2.3.7 The Three Qs of the triadic case formula................74
2.3.8 Uncertainty factors: A review............................76
2.4 SMR s View of Medical Connectives: Beyond
Drug Digestion ....................................................79
2.4.1 Conversational (dialogical) connective interpretation . 80
2.4.2 Content-dependent vs. content-independent
connectives..................................................83
2.5 Natural Laws and Scientific Models..............................85
2.5.1 Infectious disease and human exposure modeling .... 86
2.5.2 Medical syllogism and the justification
of professional assertions..................................89
2.5.3 Reconstructing Chinese arguments in terms
of Greek syllogisms........................................94
2.5.4 Revisiting content-dependent and
content-independent assertions............................96
2.6 Substantive Conditionals in Medical Thinking..................99
2.6.1 The notion of content-dependent conditional............100
2.6.2 Paradoxes of mainstream logic............................105
2.6.3 Conditionals and metalanguage..........................114
2.6.4 Conditionals and natural laws............................117
2.6.5 Over-extending and extrapolating........................119
2.7 The Object Language-Metalanguage Connection................121
2.7.1 Relations between states..................................122
2.7.2 Combinations of medical inferences
and derivative assertions..................................131
2.7.3 Levels of justification and uncertainty....................133
2.7.4 Does postmodern decision analysis make sense? .... 138
Chapter 3. The Role of Probability 141
3.1 How Much Understanding is Sufficient in Medical
Investigations?......................................................141
3.1.1 Medical assertions and partial understanding............141
3.1.2 On rationality and belief..................................144
3.1.3 Knowledge theory revisited: Platonism,
context and continuity in medical thinking..............145
3.1.4 Concerning medical expertise ............................147
3.2 Space-Time Probabilities of Medical Cases......................148
3.2.1 Common probability interpretations in health
care practice................................................148
3.2.2 Probability of a case assertion (mind state)..............152
3.2.3 Basic probability rules....................................155
3.2.4 Probability interpretations in object language
and metalanguage..........................................157
3.2.5 Body of evidence and medical interventions ............161
3.3 Probabilities of Medical Conditionals............................164
3.3.1 Standard logical relations and inference rules............164
3.3.2 Choosing a conditional probability form ................166
3.3.3 Stochastic truth tables: A second look ..................176
3.3.4 More on probability calculation: Is there
a probameter?..............................................181
3.4 Stochastic Medical Inferences ....................................186
3.4.1 Prom standard to stochastic syllogisms..................187
3.4.2 Premise strengthening, internally consistent
and uninformative inferences..............................199
3.5 Probability, Uncertainty and Information of Diagnoses
or Prognoses Sets..................................................205
3.6 Diagnosis Ranking and Symptom Confirmation Strength . . . 211
3.6.1 Quantitative case parameters ............................212
3.6.2 Principles of medical practice and then-
quantitative expressions .................215
3.7 The Trouble with Medical Probability............................217
3.8 Translating Medical Assertions into Probabilistic Terms .... 222
3.9 Space-Time Reasoning Dynamics................................229
3.9.1 Changes in assertions and substantive conditionals . . 229
3.9.2 Probability dynamics and hypothesis confirmation . . . 235
3.9.3 The case of non-monotonic medical reasoning.....238
3.10 Medical Syllogisms Involving Likelihood Ratios ........240
3.11 Summing Up: Checking the Validity of Medical Arguments . . 242
3.12 Self-Referential Medical Assertions and Cognitive Favorability 244
3.13 Not Just a Set of Guidelines......................................247
Chapter 4. Space-Time Medical Mapping
and Causation Modeling 249
4.1 Techniques With a Health Warning . . . .....................249
4.2 Space-Time Disease Mapping..................250
4.2.1 Objectives of medical mapping............................251
4.2.2 The fundamental mapping equations....................253
4.2.3 The insight behind the BME-SIR equations............256
4.2.4 A study of French flu...................258
4.3 Modeling Space-Time Infectious Disease Spread........264
4.4 Space-Time Causation Revisited..................................268
4.5 Medical Causation in the SMR Inference Setting................271
4.5.1 Defining the problem......................................272
4.5.2 The role of KB and the interpretation of
probabilistic causation..................277
4.5.3 Causation: Epistemic vs. non-epistemic.........280
4.5.4 Some remarks regarding the form of the
causation conditional......................................283
4.5.5 Stochastic causal inferences ..............................285
4.5.6 The role of secondary case attributes..........287
4.6 Causation in Terms of Integrative Space-Time Prediction . . . 289
4.7 Causation Justification and the Dualistic Opposition.....291
Chapter 5. Looking Ahead 293
5.1 An Ibsenian Transformation......................................293
5.2 SMR and Divergence of Rationality in Medical Thinking . . . 296
5.3 Challenges Emerging from the Incompleteness Principle and
Unanticipated Knowledge..........................................298
5.4 Information Technology-Based Medical Reasoning..............302
5.5 Social and Cultural Dimensions of Medical Thinking.....304
5.6 Quod lacet Ante?..................................................308
Bibliography 315
Index 331
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| spelling | Christakos, George Verfasser aut Stochastic medical reasoning and environmental health exposure George Christakos, Jin-Feng Wang, Jiaping Wu London Imperial College Press [2014] © 2014 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on print version record Ch. 1. Medical sciences in the age of synthesis. 1.1. Professional practice and stochastic medical reasoning. 1.2. Health: The fundamental roles of space-time and uncertainty. 1.3. Abstract and concrete modes of thinking. 1.4. Issues of sound medical decision-making. 1.5. Medical dialectics and knowledge synthesis: An outline -- ch. 2. Reasoning amidst uncertainty. 2.1. When "to know" means "to be uncertain of". 2.2. The space-time domain of stochastic medical reasoning. 2.3. In situ logic and uncertain mind states. 2.4. SMR's view of medical connectives: Beyond drug digestion. 2.5. Natural laws and scientific models. 2.6. Substantive conditionals in medical thinking. 2.7. The object language-metalanguage connection -- ch. 3. The role of probability. 3.1. How much understanding is sufficient in medical investigations? 3.2. Space-time probabilities of medical cases. 3.3. Probabilities of medical conditionals. 3.4. Stochastic medical inferences. 3.5. Probability, uncertainty and information of diagnoses or prognoses sets. 3.6. Diagnosis ranking and symptom confirmation strength. 3.7. The trouble with medical probability. 3.8. Translating medical assertions into probabilistic terms. 3.9. Space-time reasoning dynamics. 3.10. Medical syllogisms involving likelihood ratios. 3.11. Summing up: Checking the validity of medical arguments. 3.12. Self-referential medical assertions and cognitive favorability. 3.13. Not just a set of guidelines -- ch. 4. Space-time medical mapping and causation modeling. 4.1. Techniques with a "health warning" 4.2. Space-time disease mapping. 4.3. Modeling space-time infectious disease spread. 4.4. Space-time causation revisited. 4.5. Medical causation in the SMR inference setting. 4.6. Causation in terms of integrative space-time prediction. 4.7. Causation justification and the dualistic opposition -- ch. 5. Looking ahead. 5.1. An Ibsenian transformation. 5.2. SMR and divergence of rationality in medical thinking. 5.3. Challenges emerging from the incompleteness principle and unanticipated knowledge. 5.4. Information technology-based medical reasoning. 5.5. Social and cultural dimensions of medical thinking. 5.6. Quod iacet ante? The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought. For example, the technical complexity of an environmental exposure experiment may overshadow the logical assumptions made when moving from one phase of the experiment to the next, or the study of population risk assessment may focus on analytical and computational matters, whereas methodological and cultural factors are neglected. This book helps health investigators structure their thinking so that they avoid logical mistakes and argument pitfalls, and also gain new insights about reality, improve their awareness of the environment and context within which one's thinking takes place HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism bisacsh HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference bisacsh MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine bisacsh MEDICAL / Atlases bisacsh MEDICAL / Essays bisacsh MEDICAL / Family & General Practice bisacsh MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine bisacsh MEDICAL / Osteopathy bisacsh Environmental health fast Medical logic fast Stochastic processes fast Medizin Medical logic Environmental health Stochastic processes Wang, Jinfeng Sonstige oth Wu, Jiaping Sonstige oth Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Christakos, George, author Stochastic medical reasoning and environmental health exposure http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=752519 Aggregator Volltext HBZ Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028452599&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Christakos, George Stochastic medical reasoning and environmental health exposure Ch. 1. Medical sciences in the age of synthesis. 1.1. Professional practice and stochastic medical reasoning. 1.2. Health: The fundamental roles of space-time and uncertainty. 1.3. Abstract and concrete modes of thinking. 1.4. Issues of sound medical decision-making. 1.5. Medical dialectics and knowledge synthesis: An outline -- ch. 2. Reasoning amidst uncertainty. 2.1. When "to know" means "to be uncertain of". 2.2. The space-time domain of stochastic medical reasoning. 2.3. In situ logic and uncertain mind states. 2.4. SMR's view of medical connectives: Beyond drug digestion. 2.5. Natural laws and scientific models. 2.6. Substantive conditionals in medical thinking. 2.7. The object language-metalanguage connection -- ch. 3. The role of probability. 3.1. How much understanding is sufficient in medical investigations? 3.2. Space-time probabilities of medical cases. 3.3. Probabilities of medical conditionals. 3.4. Stochastic medical inferences. 3.5. Probability, uncertainty and information of diagnoses or prognoses sets. 3.6. Diagnosis ranking and symptom confirmation strength. 3.7. The trouble with medical probability. 3.8. Translating medical assertions into probabilistic terms. 3.9. Space-time reasoning dynamics. 3.10. Medical syllogisms involving likelihood ratios. 3.11. Summing up: Checking the validity of medical arguments. 3.12. Self-referential medical assertions and cognitive favorability. 3.13. Not just a set of guidelines -- ch. 4. Space-time medical mapping and causation modeling. 4.1. Techniques with a "health warning" 4.2. Space-time disease mapping. 4.3. Modeling space-time infectious disease spread. 4.4. Space-time causation revisited. 4.5. Medical causation in the SMR inference setting. 4.6. Causation in terms of integrative space-time prediction. 4.7. Causation justification and the dualistic opposition -- ch. 5. Looking ahead. 5.1. An Ibsenian transformation. 5.2. SMR and divergence of rationality in medical thinking. 5.3. Challenges emerging from the incompleteness principle and unanticipated knowledge. 5.4. Information technology-based medical reasoning. 5.5. Social and cultural dimensions of medical thinking. 5.6. Quod iacet ante? The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought. For example, the technical complexity of an environmental exposure experiment may overshadow the logical assumptions made when moving from one phase of the experiment to the next, or the study of population risk assessment may focus on analytical and computational matters, whereas methodological and cultural factors are neglected. This book helps health investigators structure their thinking so that they avoid logical mistakes and argument pitfalls, and also gain new insights about reality, improve their awareness of the environment and context within which one's thinking takes place HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism bisacsh HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference bisacsh MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine bisacsh MEDICAL / Atlases bisacsh MEDICAL / Essays bisacsh MEDICAL / Family & General Practice bisacsh MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine bisacsh MEDICAL / Osteopathy bisacsh Environmental health fast Medical logic fast Stochastic processes fast Medizin Medical logic Environmental health Stochastic processes |
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