How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine - Brossura

Mongtomery, Kathryn

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199942056 ISBN 13: 9780199942053

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2012

Riassunto

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical studies to construct a tentative account of the illness.
How Doctors Think is divided into four parts. Part one introduces the concept of medicine as a practice rather than a science; part two discusses the idea of causation; part three delves into the process of forming clinical judgment; and part four considers clinical judgment within the uncertain nature of medicine itself. In How Doctors Think, Montgomery contends that assuming medicine is strictly a science can have adverse side effects, and suggests reducing these by recognizing the vital role of clinical judgment.

"This is a book that will be read with pleasure by anyone interested in how medicine is done and it is a book that should be required reading for all students starting their clinical training."―Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

"Montgomery has certainly written a piece that will stimulate people to think more deeply about medical and wider health professional practice. It is a text I will recommend to students and colleagues."―PsycCRITIQUES

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University

Contenuti:

• PART I. MEDICINE AS A PRACTICE
• 1. Medicine and the Limits of Knowledge
• 2. The Misdescription of Medicine
• PART II. CLINICAL JUDGMENT AND THE IDEA OF CAUSE
• 3. Clinical Judgment and the Interpretation of the Case
• 4. "What Brings You Here Today?": The Idea of Cause in Medical Practice
• 5. The Simplification of Clinical Cause
• 6. Clinical Judgment and the Problem of Particularizing
• PART III. THE FORMATION OF CLINICAL JUDGMENT
• 7. Aphorisms, Maxims, and Old Saws: Some Rules of Clinical Reasoning
• 8. "Don't Think Zebras": A Theory of Clinical Knowing
• 9. Knowing One's Place: The Evaluation of Clinical Judgment
• PART IV. CLINICAL JUDGMENT AND THE NATURE OF MEDICINE
• 10. The Self in Medicine: The Use and Misuse of the Science Claim
• 11. A Medicine of Neighbors
• 12. Uncertainty and the Ethics of Practice

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199942056
• ISBN 13: 9780199942053
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256