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Disease is everywhere. Everyone experiences disease, everyone knows
somebody who is, or has been diseased, and disease-related stories
hit the headlines on a regular basis. Many important issues in the
philosophy of disease, however, have received remarkably little
attention from philosophical thinkers. This book examines a number
of important debates in the philosophy of medicine, including 'what
is disease?', and the roles and viability of concepts of causation,
in clinical medicine and epidemiology. Where much of the existing
literature targets conceptual analyses of health and disease, this
book provides the reader with an insight into these debates, and
develops plausible alternative accounts. The author explores a
range of related subjects, discussing a host of interesting
philosophical questions within clinical medicine, pathology and
epidemiology. In the second part of the book, the author examines
the concepts of causation employed by clinicians and pathologists,
how one should classify diseases, and whether the epidemiologist's
models for inferring the causes of disease are all they're cracked
up to be.
Marketing text: This book covers the overlap between informatics,
computer science, philosophy of causation, and causal inference in
epidemiology and population health research. Key concepts covered
include how data are generated and interpreted, and how and why
concepts in health informatics and the philosophy of science should
be integrated in a systems-thinking approach. Furthermore, a formal
epistemology for the health sciences and public health is
suggested. Causation in Population Health Informatics and Data
Science provides a detailed guide of the latest thinking on causal
inference in population health informatics. It is therefore a
critical resource for all informaticians and epidemiologists
interested in the potential benefits of utilising a systems-based
approach to causal inference in health informatics.
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