Intuition in Medicine
A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning
Publication supported by the Bevington Fund
256 pages
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20 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2012
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Introduction
One: Intuition in Medical and Moral Reasoning
Two: Moral Intuitionism
Three: The Place of Aristotelian Phronesis in Clinical Reasoning
Four: Aristotle’s Practical Syllogism: Accounting for the Individual through a Theory of Action and Cognition
Five: Individual and Statistical Physiognomy: The Art and Science of Making the Invisible Visible
Six: Clinical Intuition versus Statistical Reasoning
Seven: Contingency and Correlation: The Significance of Modeling Clinical Reasoning on Statistics
Eight: Abduction: The Intuitive Support of Clinical Induction
Two: Moral Intuitionism
Three: The Place of Aristotelian Phronesis in Clinical Reasoning
Four: Aristotle’s Practical Syllogism: Accounting for the Individual through a Theory of Action and Cognition
Five: Individual and Statistical Physiognomy: The Art and Science of Making the Invisible Visible
Six: Clinical Intuition versus Statistical Reasoning
Seven: Contingency and Correlation: The Significance of Modeling Clinical Reasoning on Statistics
Eight: Abduction: The Intuitive Support of Clinical Induction
Conclusion: Medical Ethics beyond Ontology
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Stephen Buetow | Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
“[A] sweeping but richly crafted historical journey. . . . Intuition in Medicine is a stimulating, concise and reasonably priced text that is likely to appeal to a wide range of academic readers for its ability to challenge and advance medical and moral thinking about clinical reasoning, the place of intuition in medicine and what it means to be human.”
Elaine W. Cotlove | Journal of the American Medical Association
“This book is monumental in the depth and breadth of its scholarship.”
John Safranek | Review of Metaphysics
“Intuition in Medicine is insightful in warning of the subversion of clinical reasoning by the blind application of statistics, oblivious both to the role of intuition in clinical practice and the human character of the doctor-patient encounter. Braude broadly succeeds in relating Aristotelian epistemology to the practice of medicine and thereby overcoming the dehumanization and Cartesian dualism that threatens the practice of medicine.”
Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University | Medcal History
“Braude must be congratulated for offering a grand synthesis that his topic deserves. . . . An intellectually enriched account of what truly threatens humane medicine and what is required for authentic reasoned clinical care.”
Mikey McGovern | New Books in Medicine
"The scope of Braude's work is impressive, as it touches on classic philosophical texts--including a thorough treatment of Aristotle--as much as work better known by medical ethicists. . . . Throughout, Braude's clarity and scrutiny shine through his treatment of the material, while he suggests new ways forward through phenomenology as a deeper consideration of both the doctor and patient as subjects. Intuition in Medicine keeps the doors of the medical humanities open to both physicians and philosophers by elucidating a foundational issue about which both groups can--and must--learn from one another."
Kathryn Montgomery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
“Hillel Braude’s book is brilliant. There’s nothing like it—this is a true, deep, scholarly, philosophical, historical work with real staying power.”
James Giordano, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford
“Drawing on philosophy, science, ethics, and a wealth of personal experience as a physician and philosopher, Hillel D. Braude offers keen insight into the essence of medicine as an intellectual and moral endeavor. Braude explores the nature of medical knowledge and its application in both the objective and subjective aspects of reasoning, decision making, and patient interaction that define the act of medicine and its realization in the clinical encounter. This important new book carries on in the spirit and tenor of Pellegrino and Thomasma, and I believe rightfully takes its place with such seminal studies as an invaluable work on the skill and art of practical wisdom in medicine."
Sander L. Gilman, Emory University
“Hillel D. Braude’s Intuition in Medicine: A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning is the first serious attempt to understand medical intuition as an intrinsic part of both the scientific process and the world of therapy. Sophisticated but not esoteric, Braude’s study is able to provide a reasoned and balanced account of the intuitive process, freeing intuition from the world of medical magic thinking and placing it at the center of medicine. A major contribution to medical humanities.”
Richard M. Zaner, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Hillel D. Braude’s book is a remarkable achievement that should be carefully studied by all those who seek to understand the nature of clinical reasoning. He provides an important analysis of the major figures in the still ongoing disputes between evidence-based medical models and those that insist on the place of intuition and tacit knowledge. Moreover, he is eminently fair to all the parties to these disputes, and in the process uncovers central historical themes that have long fueled them—from his important and balanced analysis of Aristotle’s phronesis through Galton’s discovery of correlation and Polanyi’s study of tacit knowledge, along with those still currently involved in these issues. A splendid accomplishment that is both deeply informed of these discussions and highly intelligent and fair in its assessments and conclusions.”
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