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    Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,
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    almahu_9949863567002882
    Format: 1 online resource (332 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783031622410
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine Series ; v.151
    Note: Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prologue: A Pragmatist Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background Assumptions and Theoretical Starting Points -- 2.3 Connections with Classical Pragmatism -- 2.4 Problematic Situations Related to Health and Disease Concepts -- 2.4.1 Patients with Symptoms but No Pathology Are Not Understood as Diseased -- 2.4.2 Patients with Pathology or `Biomarkers ́but No Symptoms Are Understood as Diseased -- 2.4.3 Preventive Medicine Aimed at Preventing Pathology or Pathophysiology, as Opposed to Symptoms -- 2.4.4 Overdiagnosis -- 2.4.5 The False Presumption that Patients with the Same Disease Are Homogeneous -- 2.4.6 Problems with the Notion of Health -- 2.4.7 Institutional Designation of the Sick Role -- 2.5 Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Nature and Culture in Health and Disease: Historical Strategies in Medical Diagnostics for Navigating Between Criti... -- 3.1 Introduction: Diagnostic Essentialism and Nominalism -- 3.2 Diagnosis and Diagnostics Since the Nineteenth Century -- 3.3 Theories of Diagnosis in the 1920s: Crookshank, Koch and Vaihingerś `As-If ́-- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Epistemic Inclusion and the Silence of the Patients -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Silence of the Patients -- 4.3 From Continuity to Discontinuity -- 4.4 Epistemic Inclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The Variety of Historiographical Medical Relativism -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Cunningham on Incommensurability and Retrospective Diagnosis -- 5.3 Jewsonś Medical Cosmologies and the Modes of Production -- 5.4 Mol on Enactment and Ontological Politics -- 5.5 The Spectrum of Relativism -- 5.6 Cunninghamś Relativism of Distance. , 5.7 Is Cunningham Is Committed to Equal-Validity Relativism? -- 5.8 Jewsonś Locality-Relativism -- 5.9 Molś Ontological Relativism: Between Equal Validity and Distance -- 5.10 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Cultivate Your Own Garden-Some Reflections on Martin Kuschś Overview of Relativism in Medical History -- References -- Chapter 7: Is There an Epistemic Role for History in Medicine? Thinking About Thyroid Cancer -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Cancer and Malignancy in the Nineteenth Century -- 7.3 Bringing Order to Chaos: 1900-1950 -- 7.4 Differentiated and Undifferentiated Tumours -- 7.5 Papillary Carcinomas Comprised Mostly of Follicles -- 7.6 Papillary Carcinoma with no Papillary Structures at All -- 7.7 Lumps that Needed Splitting -- 7.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: A Plea for More History -- 8.1 Is it Important? -- 8.2 Is it Convincing? -- 8.3 How to Make it Even More Historical? -- References -- Chapter 9: Scope Validity in Medicine -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Validity, Scope, and Scope Validity -- 9.2.1 Validity Concepts and the Guiding Ideal of a Construct -- 9.2.2 The Logic of Validation in Animal Models of Human Diseases -- 9.2.3 Scope Validity -- 9.3 Towards a Relational Epistemology -- 9.3.1 A Particularistic Perspective on Disease -- 9.3.2 Scoping Methods -- 9.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Scope Validity in Medicine: An Asset to the Epidemiologistś Armoury -- References -- Chapter 11: The Biomarkerization of Alzheimerś Disease: From (Early) Diagnosis to Anticipation? -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Biomarkers for Alzheimerś Disease: Food for Thought -- 11.2.1 NIA-AA 2011 -- 11.2.2 NIA-AA 2018 -- 11.2.3 Draft NIA-AA 2023 -- 11.3 Biomarkers and Disease -- 11.4 AD Biomarkers: Promising Homogeneity and Certainty, Producing Heterogeneity and Probabilities. , 11.5 Implications for AD, With or Without Symptoms -- 11.6 Towards Anticipatory Healthcare -- 11.7 In Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Biomarking Life -- 12.1 Do Biomarkers Promote a Shift from Ontological Concepts to Physiological Concepts? -- 12.2 Are Biomarkers Responsible for the Shift to Anticipation? -- 12.3 Do Biomarkers Decouple Disease from Suffering and Put the Person at the Center? -- 12.4 From Marking (What Is) Bad to Defining What Is Good -- 12.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Risk and Disease: Two Alternative Ways of Modelling Health Phenomena -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Explaining the Blurring of the Disease-Risk Distinction -- 13.2.1 The Plasticity of the Concepts of Risk and Risk Factor -- 13.2.2 About the Distinction Between Cause(s) of Disease and Disease -- 13.2.3 Probabilistic Modelling of Chronic Diseases -- 13.3 Limits of the Functionalist Conceptual Analysis of Disease for the Risk-Disease Distinction -- 13.3.1 The Functionalist Criterion for the Risk-Disease Distinction -- 13.3.2 Risk Level Is Used to Determine the Threshold for Disease -- 13.4 Risk Beyond the Normal-Pathological Dichotomy: An Alternative Gradualist Approach of Health -- 13.4.1 The Epidemiological Risk Approach as an Alternative Way of Modelling Health Phenomena -- 13.4.2 Neither Normal Nor Pathological -- 13.4.3 Advantages of the Risk Approach and a Gradualist Concept of Health -- 13.4.4 Challenges for the Risk Approach and a Gradualist Concept of Health -- 13.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: Fundamental Concepts in Medicine: Why Risk and Disease Are Likely to Stay on Board -- References -- Chapter 15: A Pragmatic Approach to Understanding the Disease Status of Addiction -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The Vague Cluster Account -- 15.2.1 Vagueness -- 15.2.2 Cluster Concept Structure -- 15.2.3 Disease as a Vague Cluster Concept. , 15.3 Addiction as a Borderline Disease -- 15.3.1 Dysfunction -- 15.3.2 Harm -- 15.3.3 Explanation in Biological/Psychological Terms -- 15.3.4 Lack of Direct Conscious Control -- 15.3.5 Conclusion on the disease status of addiction -- 15.4 Pragmatic Considerations in Specifying the Disease Status of Addiction -- 15.4.1 Pragmatic Reasons for Considering Addiction a Disease -- 15.4.2 Reasons Against Taking Addiction to Be a Disease -- 15.5 How Should We Precisify `Disease ́in the Case of Addiction? -- 15.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 16: Addiction and Its Ambiguities: Some Comments from History -- 16.1 Contested Nature of Disease Status -- 16.1.1 The Addiction-Or Substance Use Disorder-Spectrum -- 16.2 Harmfulness of Drugs and Drug Policies -- References -- Chapter 17: Pragmatism in the Fray: Constructing Futures for `Medically Unexplained Symptoms ́-- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 A Change of Scene -- 17.3 Turning the Tables on `Somatisation ́-- 17.4 How to Take Symptoms Seriously? -- 17.4.1 `Forget (Biomedical) Explanation! ́-- 17.4.2 `Patients Need (Good) Explanations! ́-- 17.5 The Symptoms Clinic: Explanations as a Wager on an Unfinished Present -- 17.6 Conclusion: Choose Your Pragmatism Carefully -- References -- Chapter 18: The Bodily Deficit in Contemporary Healthcare -- References -- Chapter 19: Conceptual Engineering Health: A Historical-Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Positive Health -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 A Brief History of the Concept of Positive Health -- 19.2.1 Prelude -- 19.2.2 A Conference and a Position Paper -- 19.2.3 Developing the `New, Dynamic Concept ́into Positive Health -- 19.2.4 Uptake and Implementation -- 19.2.5 Critique -- 19.3 Conceptual Engineering -- 19.3.1 A New Meta-semantical Theory and Philosophical Methodology -- 19.3.2 The Target of Conceptual Engineering. , 19.3.3 Conceptual Engineering in and for Medicine -- 19.4 Methods for Concept Evaluation -- 19.4.1 A Functional Approach -- 19.4.2 Carnapian Explication -- 19.4.3 Ameliorative Analysis -- 19.5 Assessing the Adequacy of Positive Health -- 19.5.1 Method of Choice -- 19.5.2 Through the Lens of Pragmatic Carnapian Explication -- Clarifying the Explicandum and Identifying the Task -- Assessing the Adequacy of the Proposed Explicatum -- 19.5.3 Through the Lens of Ameliorative Analysis -- Critical Analysis -- Assessing the Adequacy of the Ameliorative Concept -- 19.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 20: On the Social and Material Lives of Health Concepts in the Wild -- References -- Chapter 21: Healthism, Elite Capture, and the Pitfalls of an Expansive Concept of Health -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 Healthism and the Moral and Aesthetic Meanings of Health -- 21.3 The Tyranny of the Community -- 21.4 Healthy Eating -- 21.5 Healthy Sexuality -- 21.6 Healthy Gender Identity -- 21.7 Elite Capture of the Concept of Health -- References -- Chapter 22: Pragmatism, Pluralism, Vigilance and Tools for Reflection: A Reply to Quill Kukla -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 Health as a Multifaceted Term and Its Relation to Disease and Well-Being -- 22.3 Health as a Value-Laden Term and the Need for Ongoing Reflection -- 22.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 23: Epilogue: Towards a Toolbox for a Pragmatist Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 Insights into Some Problematic Situations -- 23.3 Further Themes and Issues -- 23.3.1 Disease and Diseases -- 23.3.2 Context -- 23.3.3 Concepts, Conceptions and Conceptualizations -- 23.3.4 Functions and Functioning of Concepts -- 23.3.5 Continuity and Change -- 23.4 Towards a Toolbox -- 23.4.1 A Toolbox of Disease Concepts -- 23.4.2 A Pragmatist Working Method -- 23.4.3 Concluding Remarks. , References.
    Additional Edition: Print version: Schermer, Maartje A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 ISBN 9783031622403
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Format: 1 online resource (332 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    ISBN: 3-031-62241-3
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine Series ; v.151
    Content: This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to): Paying less attention to patients who are suffering with symptoms because no identifiable pathological lesion or pathophysiological process can be found. Paying too much attention to patients who are not suffering with symptoms because pathological lesions or pathophysiological processes have been found. The tendency to understand patients at risk of developing pathology as being diseased. The tendency to disregard the importance of wider societal consequences of definitions of disease and health. The book shows that many of these problems are related to what disease and health are considered to be and argues that these problems can be addressed by reconsidering the concepts of health and disease employed in practice. It argues for a pragmatic reconceptualization of health and disease that allows clinicians, researchers, and lay people to understand health and disease in many ways, depending on the specific context in which they find themselves and the problems they are trying to solve. In doing so, authors are careful to show how this pragmatism does not endorse “silly” forms of relativism, in which knowledge is reduced to belief or to whatever people find expedient to believe. This work is relevant for philosophers and historians a well as for doctors, health policy makers and other health professionals because it addresses problems sourced from medical practice, albeit using philosophical and historical methods.
    Note: Introduction -- Part 1. Finding a Pragmatic Middle Way Between Realist and Silly Relativist Poles -- Chapter 1. Philosophical Perspective (Martin Kusch) -- Chapter 2. Historical Perspective (Heiner Fangerau) -- Chapter 3. Integrated Historical and Philosophical Perspective (Timo Bolt) -- Part 2. Problematic Situations -- Chapter 4. Symptoms Without Pathology (Monica Greco) -- Chapter 5. Pathology Without Symptoms (Marianna Boenink) -- Chapter 6. Disease as Risk (Elodie Giroux) -- Chapter 6. Disease as Risk (John Yudkin) -- Chapter 7. TBD (Mary Walker) -- Chapter 8. Homogeneity of Disease Entities (Lara Keuck) -- Chapter 9. Positive Health (Rik van der Linden) -- Chapter 10. Attending to Societal Consequences of Definitions of Health (Quill Kukla) -- Conclusion.
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    Format: XV, 325 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    ISBN: 9783031622410
    Content: This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to): Paying less attention to patients who are suffering with symptoms because no identifiable pathological lesion or pathophysiological process can be found. Paying too much attention to patients who are not suffering with symptoms because pathological lesions or pathophysiological processes have been found. The tendency to understand patients at risk of developing pathology as being diseased. The tendency to disregard the importance of wider societal consequences of definitions of disease and health. The book shows that many of these problems are related to what disease and health are considered to be and argues that these problems can be addressed by reconsidering the concepts of health and disease employed in practice. It argues for a pragmatic reconceptualization of health and disease that allows clinicians, researchers, and lay people to understand health and disease in many ways, depending on the specific context in which they find themselves and the problems they are trying to solve. In doing so, authors are careful to show how this pragmatism does not endorse "silly" forms of relativism, in which knowledge is reduced to belief or to whatever people find expedient to believe. This work is relevant for philosophers and historians a well as for doctors, health policy makers and other health professionals because it addresses problems sourced from medical practice, albeit using philosophical and historical methods.
    Note: Introduction -- Part 1. Finding a Pragmatic Middle Way Between Realist and Silly Relativist Poles -- Chapter 1. Philosophical Perspective (Martin Kusch) -- Chapter 2. Historical Perspective (Heiner Fangerau) -- Chapter 3. Integrated Historical and Philosophical Perspective (Timo Bolt) -- Part 2. Problematic Situations -- Chapter 4. Symptoms Without Pathology (Monica Greco) -- Chapter 5. Pathology Without Symptoms (Marianna Boenink) -- Chapter 6. Disease as Risk (Elodie Giroux) -- Chapter 6. Disease as Risk (John Yudkin) -- Chapter 7. TBD (Mary Walker) -- Chapter 8. Homogeneity of Disease Entities (Lara Keuck) -- Chapter 9. Positive Health (Rik van der Linden) -- Chapter 10. Attending to Societal Consequences of Definitions of Health (Quill Kukla) -- Conclusion.
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