The fragility of philosophy of medicine : essentialism, Wittgenstein and family resemblances / Lucien Karhausen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karhausen, Lucien, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Philosophy and medicine ; v. 147.

Philosophy and medicine ; volume 147

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Philosophy, Medical.

Medical Subjects:

Philosophy, Medical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Contents

Chapter 1: A Certain Philosophical Context

1.1 The Unity of Science

1.2 The Disunity of Science

1.3 Nancy Cartwright, Technè and Possibilities

Chapter 2: Wittgensteinś Toolbox

2.1 Grammar

2.2 The Quorum of Language: Family Resemblances (Familienähnlichkeit) or Similarities (Ähnlichkeit)

2.3 Language Games (Sprachspiel)

2.4 Forms of Life (Lebensform, Weltbild)

2.5 Following a Rule

2.6 Saul Kripke: One of the Best Readings of Wittgenstein

Chapter 3: Medicine

Chapter 4: Diseases, Injuries, and Disabilities

4.1 Injury and Trauma

4.2 Impairment and Disabilities

4.3 Disease

4.4 The Nature of Disease

4.5 The Philosophy of Medicine and the Problem of Disease

4.6 Criteria of ``Disease ́́

4.7 Causal and Descriptive Diseases

4.8 Classification of Diseases

4.9 Are Diseases Natural Kinds?

4.10 Is Ageing a Disease?

4.11 You Can Create a Disease That Does Not Exist

4.12 The Philosophy of Medicine: Essentialism

4.13 Fragility of the Concept of Disease

4.14 Another Conceptual Analysis: The Language Quorum

Chapter 5: Mental Disorders

5.1 The Mental Disorder

5.2 Fragmentation of the Self

5.3 Epistemic Rupture

5.4 Syntactic Breakdown: Deterioration in Coherent Thought, Perception, and Emotion

5.5 Semantic Rupture

5.6 A-Rationality

5.7 Responsibility and the Role of the Patient

5.8 Interactive Types and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

5.9 Co-Morbidity of Mental Disorders

5.10 Validity and Utility of Psychiatric Classifications

5.11 Psychiatric Diseases or Syndromes

5.12 A Note on Psychiatric Diagnosis

5.13 The Fragility of Diagnosis

5.14 Strawson and the Concept of Mental Illness

5.15 Suicide

5.16 Mental Syndromes Are Realized in Multiple Ways

5.17 Supervenience and the Mind-Body Problem

5.18 Can Mental Disorders Be Adaptive?

5.19 Schizophrenia and the Darwinian Paradox

5.20 Is Schizophrenia Adaptive?

5.21 Wittgenstein and the Concept of Psychosis

Chapter 6: Unexplained Physical Symptoms and Functional Disorders

6.1 Prevalence of Unexplained Clinical Disorders

6.2 The Role of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

6.3 Cultural Factors and Disease as Behaviour

6.4 Conclusion

Chapter 7: Health

7.1 The WHO Definition of Health

7.2 Health and the Philosophy of Medicine

7.3 The Nature of Health

7.4 What Do We Mean by `Health?́

Chapter 8: Causality

8.1 Types of Causal Relationships

8.2 The Unnatural Nature of Causation

8.3 Epidemiology: Trends Towards Sufficiency and Necessity

8.4 Judea Pearl and Structural Equations

8.5 Nancy Cartwright and Family Resemblances

8.6 Causal Diseases

8.7 Randomized Intervention Trials and Mendelian Randomization

8.8 The Vicissitudes of `Risk ́

8.9 Meaning and Relativity of Risk

8.10 The Role of Genetics

8.11 To Conclude

Untitled

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 27, 2023).

ISBN:

9783031416330

3031416333

Publisher Number:

99994856949

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.