Keywords:
Social work.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780230353251
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=882580
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Philosophy and Science -- 1 Philosophical Foundations -- Science and philosophy -- Modern philosophy -- Conclusion -- 2 Modern Philosophy, Modern Science and Its Methodology -- Galileo, objectivity and mathematization of nature -- The search for universal laws and the unity of method -- Unity of science and reductionism -- Conclusion -- 3 Category Volte-face: Organisms for Machines -- What is mechanism? -- Ontological or category volte-face -- The category volte-face and the ideological goal of the new science -- Heidegger and science as theoretical technology -- Conclusion -- 4 Machines and Reductionism -- Engineering and reverse engineering -- Engineering, parts/wholes and reductionism -- Conclusion -- 5 Organism a Machine -- The first agricultural revolution -- The first scientific agricultural revolution: classical Mendelian genetics and its technology -- The second scientific agricultural revolution: molecular genetics and its technology -- Theoretical biology and philosophy -- Conclusion -- Part II Philosophy and Medicine -- 6 Human Organism is Machine: MEDICINE -- MEDICINE as ENGINEERING, Medicine as engineering -- Medicine and human-is-machine -- Conclusion -- 7 Biomedicine: Some Sciences -- Biomedicine -- Biomedicine: cleavage between its sciences and its therapies in the long early stage -- Biomedicine: some sciences -- Conclusion -- 8 Biomedicine: Some Technologies -- "Deeper" theories, "deeper" technologies and increasing degrees of control -- Surgery -- Pharmacology -- Conclusion -- Part III Causality and Disease -- 9 Nosology: The Monogenic Conception of Disease -- What is nosology? -- Prestigious status of infectious causal agents -- Monogenic conception of disease -- Postulate 1 and the monogenic conception of disease -- Conclusion.
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10 Linear Causality and the Monogenic Conception of Disease -- Humean roots -- Some anomalies -- "The cause" in different contexts -- Conclusion -- 11 Determining "the Cause": Controllability and Random Controlled Trials -- Controllability/eliminability -- Random Controlled Trial (RCT) -- Conclusion -- 12 Epidemiology: "Cinderella" Status? What kind of science is it really? -- Is it revolutionary or sub-standard science? -- Causation: multi-factorial -- Non-linear causation and post-postmodern ecosystemic science -- Epidemiology and controllability -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References and Selected Bibliography -- Index.
