Title | Clinical Judgment: A Critical Appraisal [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Fifth Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Los Angeles, California, April 14-16, 1977 / edited by Hugo Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart F. Spicker, Bernard Towers |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1979 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9399-0 |
Descript | XXVI, 279 p. online resource |
Section I / Intuitions, Hunches, and Rules for Reasoning -- Clinical Judgment -- Human Factors in Clinical Judgment: Discussion of Scrivenโs โClinical Judgmentโ -- The Art and Science of Clinical Judgment: An Informational Approach -- When Does a Diagnosis Become a Clinical Judgment? Verifiability, Reliability and Umbrella Effects in Diagnosis -- Section II / The Logic of Health Care -- Classification and Its Alternatives -- Comments on Murphyโs โClassification and Its Alternativesโ -- Simulating Clinical Judgment: An Essay in Technological Psychology -- A Clinicianโs Quest for Certainty -- A Reply to Ernan McMullin -- The Logic of Clinical Judgment: Bayesian and Other Approaches -- Suppes on the Logic of Clinical Judgment -- Section III / Clinicians on Clinical Judgment -- The Anatomy of Clinical Judgments: Some Notes on Right Reason and Right Action -- Comments on Pellegrinoโs โAnatomy of Clinical Judgmentโ -- The Subjective in Clinical Judgment -- Subjectivity and the Scope of Clinical Judgment -- Section IV / Judgment and Methods in Clinical Judgment -- Round Table Discussion -- Round Table Discussion -- Round Table Discussion -- Round Table Discussion -- Round Table Discussion -- Closing Remarks -- Notes on Contributors