EAN: 9783838212135

PATIENT SAFETY - THE RELEVANCE OF LOGIC IN MEDI...

In our time of well-publicized health care travails  in the USA and the UK and elsewhere 
matters of financing too often subsume the dimension of patient care. In his latest book 
Alexander L. Gungov studies a vital but neglected aspect of patient safety. Of the thousands of
medical errors committed on a daily basis  in the bulk of unfortunate clinical decisions  a
significant share pertains to various logical flows and epistemological fallacies. By focusing
on the logical dimensions of clinical medicine  Gungov promotes awareness of the logical and
epistemological traps that lie in the day-to-day care of patients.Such a focus not only allows
us to avoid falling into them  but demonstrates the practical value of looking at medicine from
a new philosophical perspective. That perspective involves a broad and unusual collection of
philosophers. The discussion takes its starting point from J. S. Mill's inductive methods and
Giambattista Vico's verum-factum principle  but then sets out a unique combination of Charles
Sanders Peirce's abductive reasoning  Immanuel Kant's reflective judgment  as well as G. W. F.
Hegel's and D. P. Verene's speculative thinking  all marshalled to present a novel
philosophical account of clinical diagnostics. Interpretation of practical examples elucidate
the logical aspect of medical errors and suggests strategies of overcoming them. The book as a
whole demonstrates the value of Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical insights into the enigmatic
character of health.This much-needed book will be of interest to medical practitioners  health
policy-makers  patients and their families  and to advanced students and scholars in medicine 
the medical humanities  medical epistemology  and the philosophy of medicine in general.

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