Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 401 g
Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 401 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-994205-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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
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- 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
