Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-15012-3 (ISBN)
The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of these strategies during consideration of public health problems. Although these strategies are not deductively valid, they are nevertheless rationally warranted procedures. Public health professionals must have a sound understanding of these cognitive strategies in order to engage the public and achieve their public health goals.
The book draws upon public health issues as wide ranging as infectious diseases, food safety and the potential impact on human health of new technologies. It examines reasoning in the context of these issues within a large-scale, questionnaire-based survey of nearly 900 members of the public in the UK. In addition, several philosophical themes run throughout the book, including the nature of uncertainty, scientific knowledge and inquiry.
The complexity of many public health problems demands an approach to reasoning that cannot be accommodated satisfactorily within a general thinking skills framework. This book shows that by developing an awareness of these reasoning strategies, scientists and members of the public can have a more productive engagement with public health problems.
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.4.2015 |
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Zusatzinfo | XIII, 242 p. 15 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 549 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Schlagworte | Achieve public health goals • Food Safety • Health of populations • Infectious Diseases • Public health problems • Safity of prescribed drugs |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-15012-X / 331915012X |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-15012-3 / 9783319150123 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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