Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient :A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter
This open access book is a unique resource for health professionals who are interested in understanding the philosophical foundations of their daily practice. It provides tools for untangling the motivations and rationality behind the way medicine and healthcare is studied, evaluated and practiced. In particular, it illustrates the impact that thinking about causation, complexity and evidence has on the clinical encounter. The book shows how medicine is grounded in philosophical assumptions that could at least be challenged. By engaging with ideas that have shaped the medical profession, clinicians are empowered to actively take part in setting the premises for their own practice and knowledge development. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with contributions from experienced clinicians, this book presents a new philosophical framework that takes causal complexity, individual variation and medical uniqueness as default expectations for health and illness.This open access book is a unique resource for health professionals who are interested in understanding the philosophical foundations of their daily practice. It provides tools for untangling the motivations and rationality behind the way medicine and healthcare is studied, evaluated and practiced. In particular, it illustrates the impact that thinking about causation, complexity and evidence has on the clinical encounter. The book shows how medicine is grounded in philosophical assumptions that could at least be challenged. By engaging with ideas that have shaped the medical profession, clinicians are empowered to actively take part in setting the premises for their own practice and knowledge development. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with contributions from experienced clinicians, this book presents a new philosophical framework that takes causal complexity, individual variation and medical uniqueness as default expectations for health and illness.
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This open access book is a unique resource for health professionals who are interested in understanding the philosophical foundations of their daily practice. It provides tools for untangling the moti
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Rani Lill Anjum(editor)
I came to philosophy through the humanities, graduating from the early years of the BHum degree at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. I did a Masters of Philosophy at Queen’s University, Ontario, looking at the impact of psychopharmacology—using pills to treat mental disorders—on how we think about psychiatric categories. For my PhD dissertation, ‘The Case of the Triggered Memory’, I joined my interests in how scientific knowledge is produced and changes when new technology is developed with the ethics of curiosity-driven science when human participants are needed for research. From there, I joined the CauseHealth project for three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Life Science. In the meantime, I co-founded the Serendipity Society. I joined TU Delft as an Assistant Professor in 2018.
Samantha Copeland(editor)
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