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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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15013-0 Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- 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.