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This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines
models of explanation in health science and their relation with
current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered
medicine. Medicine has provided challenging case studies for the
general philosophy of science that have prompted rethinking
of a wide range of philosophical notions – such as
scientific law, theory and evidence – and contributed to the
elaboration of pluralistic approaches to modeling, causality
and explanation. The health sciences have increasingly recognized
the role of philosophy of medicine as both a field of conceptual
and methodological reflection, capable of addressing
practical issues, and hence relevant for a proper
understanding of the construction of medical knowledge, modeling
practices, therapeutic strategies and preventive decisions.
'Explaining Disease' contains various case studies in medicine to
describe the assumptions underpinning the construction of
explanatory models of diseases. It shows the impact different
explanatory strategies can have on practical matters, which in turn
affect clinical evaluation and therapy and public health decisions.
The book concludes with a few open-ended reflections to foster more
thorough consideration of the role of philosophy of medicine
can play its dialogue with the health sciences.
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