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Logic of Discovery and Diagnosis in Medicine / edited by Kenneth F. Schaffner.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pittsburgh series in philosophy and history of science.
- Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diagnosis--Data processing--Congresses.
- Diagnosis.
- Medical logic--Congresses.
- Medical logic.
- Medicine--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Medicine.
- Problem solving--Congresses.
- Problem solving.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1985]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Approaching the Logic of Diagnosis
- 2. Typologies of Disease: Nosologies Revisited
- 3. Artificial-Intelligence Approaches to Problem Solving and Clinical Diagnosis
- 4. Steps toward Mechanizing Discovery
- 5. Thoughts on the Limitations of Discovery by Computer
- 6. The Logic(s) of Evaluation in Basic and Clinical Science
- 7. More on the Logic(s) of Evaluation in Basic and Clinical Science
- 8. The Process of Clinical Diagnosis and Its Adaptation to the Computer
- 9. Coming to Grips with the Multiple-Diagnosis Problem
- 10. Diagnosis by Computer
- 11. Artificial-Intelligence and Computer Approaches to Clinical Medical Diagnosis: Comments on Simon and Pople
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520317130
- 0520317130
- OCLC:
- 1149449537
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