Fuzziness and medicine [electronic resource] : philosophical reflections and application systems in health care : a companion volume to Sadegh-Zadeh's Handbook of analytical philosophy of medicine / Rudolf Seising and Marco Elio Tabacchi (eds.)

This book is a collection of contributions written by philosophers and scientists active in different fields, such as mathematics, logics, social sciences, computer sciences and linguistics. They comment on and discuss various parts of and subjects and propositions introduced in the Handbook of Anal...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Seising, Rudolf, 1961-, Tabacchi, Marco Elio
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2013.
Series:Studies in fuzziness and soft computing ; 302.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introductory chapters. Fuzziness, Philosophy, and Medicine / Rudolf Seising, Marco Tabacchi
  • The Construction of Fuzziness / Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
  • A "Goodbye to the Aristotelian Weltanschauung" and a Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine / Rudolf Seising
  • Specificities and Vagaries of Medicine from the Viewpoint of Hard Sciences / Settimo Termini, Marco Elio Tabacchi
  • Ethics, Philosophy, and Medicine. Medical Ethics, Fuzzy Logic and Shared Decision Making / Julia Inthorn
  • Health, Illness, and Disease
  • Adjusting the Coordinates / Lukas Kaelin
  • What Does It Mean to Be an Individual? The Patient as a Vague Object in Medicine and Research / Karin Hutflötz
  • Epistemology of Medical Knowledge / Clara Barroso
  • A Fuzzy-Logic Approach to Bioethics / Txetxu Ausín
  • A Philosophical Anthropology of Medicine: The Split Subject / José Lázaro, Juan C. Hernández-Clemente.
  • Models, Methods, and Representation. Automatic Linguistic Report on the Quality of the Gait of a Person / Alberto Alvarez-Alvarez, Gracian Triviño
  • Fuzziness in Medical Image Processing: Representation and Models / Miguel Pagola, Aranzazu Jurio, Daniel Paternain, Humberto Bustince
  • Medical Concept Representation and Data Mining / Mila Kwiatkowska, Najib T. Ayas
  • Application of Knowledge-Engineering Methods in Medical Knowledge Management / Krzysztof von Michalik, Mila Kwiatkowska, Krzysztof Kielan
  • Questioning and Reasoning in Medicine.A Layperson Reflection on Sorites / Enric Trillas, Itziar Garcìa-Honrado
  • Fuzziness in Medical Measurement and Approximate Reasoning / Ernesto Araujo
  • Approaching What-, How- and Why-Questions Using a Medical Example / Alejandro Sobrino, Cristina Puente.
  • Statistical Approaches. On Examination of Medical Data with Approximate Reasoning / Vesa A. Niskanen
  • Statistical Procedures for Fuzzy Data in Medical Research / Takehiko Nakama
  • Probability, Fuzziness and Information: Defining Missions in Medicine / Luis Argüelles Méndez
  • Medical Decision Making as a Group Choice Process: Consensual Dynamics in Fuzzy Diagnosis / Silvia Bortot, Mario Fedrizzi
  • Towards an Interpretation of the Medical Expert System CADIAG 2 / David Picado Muiño, Agata Ciabattoni, Thomas Vetterlein
  • Electronic Health Records Interoperability by Archetype Based Contexts / Belén Prados-Suárez, Carlos Molina, Miguel Prados de Reyes, Carmen Peña-Yañez
  • Data Analysis and Decision Making. Fuzzy Pain Assessment in Musculoskeletal Disorder / Ernesto Araujo, Leandro Lazzareschi
  • Fuzzy Logic in Diagnostics of Rare Diseases / Tatiana Kiseliova, Maka Korinteli, Karaman Pagava
  • Category Theoretic Ontology for Representation of Assessment Scales and Consensus Guidelines in Elderly Care / Patrik Eklund
  • Fuzzy Cognitive Map Decision Support System for Successful Triage to Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Room Admissions for the Elderly / Voula C. Georgopoulos, Chrysostomos D. Stylios.