Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty

This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of...

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Published in:Springer eBooks
Main Author: Cummings, Louise (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15013-0
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505 0 |a Chapter One: The Challenge for Public Health -- Chapter Two: Philosophy and Public Health -- Chapter Three: Argument from Ignorance -- Chapter Four: Argument from Authority -- Chapter Five: Argument from Analogy -- Chapter Six: Circular Argument -- Chapter Seven: Fallacies in Public Health -- Chapter Eight: Theory of Public Health Reasoning -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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