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  • Causal Inference and the People's Health

    by Sharon Schwartz, Seth J. Prins ...
    Series series Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health
    An essential introduction to concepts of causation and causal inference that explores how our definitions of causes in epidemiology influence how we go about finding them and estimating their effects. A key goal of epidemiologic research is to uncover the causes of diseases and other health-related outcomes. But exactly what we mean by a "cause" and what types of phenomena qualify as causes, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Medical Nihilism

    by Jacob Stegenga ...
    This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Care & Cure

    An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

    by Jacob Stegenga ...
    The author of Medical Nihilism examines the philosophical complications and controversies underlying medicine.The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often ... Read more

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  • Gut Feminism

    by Elizabeth A. Wilson ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn’t so instinctively antibiological. She examines research on anti-depressants, placebos, transference, phantasy, eating disorders and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Recovery of People with Mental Illness

    Philosophical and Related Perspectives

    Edited by Abraham Rudnick ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and researched. Before then, it was generally considered that 'stability' was the best that anyone suffering from a mental disorder could hope for. But now it is recognised that, throughout their mental illness, many patients develop new beliefs, feelings, values, attitudes, and ways ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • In Consciousness we Trust

    The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

    by Hakwan Lau ...
    In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research programme exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his own laboratory, Lau uses various neuroscience techniques to address challenging philosophical questions about the nature of our subjective experience. Considering the qualitative nature of subjective experience, the book reviews the current ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Studying Human Behavior

    How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality

    by Helen E. Longino ...
    "[An] important contribution to the philosophy of the science(s) of human behavior. . . . a must read for philosophers of science and behavioral scientists." — ChoiceIn Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of "nature versus nurture." Rather than supporting one side or another or ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conversation Analysis

    by Numa Markee ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety of other areas, including applied linguistics and communication. It is of great utility in second language acquisition research for its demonstrations of how micro-moments of socially distributed cognition instantiated in conversational ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • A Clinician's Guide to Statistics in Mental Health

    by S. Nassir Ghaemi ...
    The second edition of a clear and accessible guide to the application of statistics in psychiatric practice. The book expertly describes statistical concepts in clear and simple terms, with minimal mathematical content, making it the ideal resource for busy mental health professionals. Fully revised throughout, it features five new chapters covering key advances in the field and important topics ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens

    Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology

    by Pascal Boyer ...
    This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in the context of past and present questions in anthropology, psychology and human evolution. It promotes the perspective of ‘integrated’ social science, in which social science questions are addressed in a deliberately eclectic manner, combining results and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nature of Theoretical Thinking in Nursing, Third Edition

    Third Edition

    by Hesook Suzie Kim, PhD, RN ...
    "Designated a Doody's Core Title!*This is a well-written, thought-provoking book on theoretical thinking and knowledge development in nursing.*Score: 93, 4 stars--Doody'sThe past decade has seen tremendous growth and enrichment in nursing?s theoretical work. This third edition has therefore been updated, revised, and expanded to cover the gamut of recent developments in theoretical thinking in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Medicine

    by Fred Gifford, John Woods, Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard ...
    Series Book 16 - Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    This volume covers a wide range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice. Several chapters examine such general meta-scientific concepts as discovery, reduction, theories and models, causal inference and scientific realism as they apply to medicine or medical science in particular. Some discuss ... Read more

    $189.99 USD