Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient : A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter / edited by Rani Lill Anjum, Samantha Copeland, Elena Rocca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anjum, Rani Lill, Editor.

Contributor:

Anjum, Rani Lill., Editor.

Copeland, Samantha, 1976- Editor.

Rocca, Elena., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Local Subjects:

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXII, 241 p. 30 illus., 9 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2020.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This open access book is a unique resource for health professionals who are interested in understanding the philosophical foundations of their daily practice. It provides tools for untangling the motivations and rationality behind the way medicine and healthcare is studied, evaluated and practiced. In particular, it illustrates the impact that thinking about causation, complexity and evidence has on the clinical encounter. The book shows how medicine is grounded in philosophical assumptions that could at least be challenged. By engaging with ideas that have shaped the medical profession, clinicians are empowered to actively take part in setting the premises for their own practice and knowledge development. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with contributions from experienced clinicians, this book presents a new philosophical framework that takes causal complexity, individual variation and medical uniqueness as default expectations for health and illness.

Contents:

Introduction What is the CauseHealth Handbook?

Part I Philosophy Chapter 1 Dispositions and the Single Patient

Chapter 2 Probability for the Clinic

Chapter 3 When a Cause Cannot be Found

Chapter 4 Reductionism and the Biomedical Model

Chapter 5 The Guidelines Challenge

Part II Practice Chapter 6 Above and Beyond Statistical Evidence. Why Stories Matter for Clinical Decisions and Shared Decision Making

Chapter 7 The Complexity of Persistent Pain – A Patient’s Perspective

Chapter 8 Causality and Dispositionality for Diagnosis in Medical Practice

Chapter 9 Lessons from a Clinic for Patients with Severe Obesity

Chapter 10 Reflections on the Clinician’s Role in the Clinical Encounter

Chapter 11 Psychotherapy in a Conditional World – A Plea for Causal Dispositionalism

Chapter 12 Evidence-Based Healthcare and dispositionalism

Chapter 13 The Practice of Whole Person Centred Healthcare

Chapter 14 A Broken Child, a Diseased Woman

Conclusion Toward a New Paradigm.

ISBN:

3-030-41239-3

OCLC:

1163485452