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How Scientists Explain Disease
by Paul Thagard
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Princeton University Press (1999-04-06)
ISBN: 0691002614
EAN: 9780691002613
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 268 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 080811018
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: This First Printing copy is in excellent condition. No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. Tight spine. Clean Hard Cover and Dust Jacket with light/minimum, shelf/edge wear. Very interesting copy on the explanation of diseases, worth having at an affordable price. (9H-6)
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Product Description
Ranging through the history of medicine, from the Hippocratic theory of humours to modern explanations of Mad Cow Disease and chronic fatigue syndrome, this book analyzes the development and acceptance of scientific ideas. At the heart of the book is a case study of the recent shift in medical understanding of peptic ulcers, most of which are now believed to be caused by infection by the bacterium, Heliobacter pylori. Among the questions asked are: how do scientists develop new explanations of disease? How do those explanations become accepted as true? How does medical diagnosis change when physicians are confronted with new scientific evidence? The book challenges both traditional philosophy of science, which has viewed science as largely a matter of logic, and contemporary science studies that view science as largely a matter of power.
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