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Fuzziness and Medicine: Philosophical Reflections and Application Systems in Health Care

A Companion Volume to Sadegh-Zadeh’s Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine

  • Recent research in philosophy of medicine
  • Resent research in the application of fuzzy logic to medicine
  • Written by leading expert in the fields

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing (STUDFUZZ, volume 302)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Questioning and Reasoning in Medicine

    1. Approaching What-, How- and Why-Questions Using a Medical Example

      • Alejandro Sobrino, Cristina Puente
      Pages 251-265
  2. Statistical Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
    2. Towards an Interpretation of the Medical Expert System CADIAG 2

      • David Picado Muiño, Agata Ciabattoni, Thomas Vetterlein
      Pages 323-338
    3. Electronic Health Records Interoperability by Archetype Based Contexts

      • Belén Prados-Suárez, Carlos Molina, Miguel Prados de Reyes, Carmen Peña-Yañez
      Pages 339-361
  3. Data Analysis and Decision Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 363-363
    2. Fuzzy Pain Assessment in Musculoskeletal Disorder

      • Ernesto Araujo, Leandro Lazzareschi
      Pages 365-377
    3. Fuzzy Logic in Diagnostics of Rare Diseases

      • Tatiana Kiseliova, Maka Korinteli, Karaman Pagava
      Pages 379-399
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 437-447

About this book

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 Analytical Philosophy of Medicine from Kadem Sadegh-Zadeh, published by Springer in 2012. This volume reports on the fruitful exchange and debate that arose in the fuzzy community upon the publication of the Handbook. This was not only very much appreciated by the community but also seen as a critical starting point for beginning a new discussion. The results of this discussion, which involved many different perspectives from science and the humanities and was warmly encouraged by Kadem Sadegh-Zadeh himself, are accurately reported in this volume, which is intended to be a critical companion to Kadem Sadegh-Zadeh´s handbook.

 

Rudolf Seising is currently an adjunct researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing in Mieres, Asturias (Spain) and a college lecturer at the Faculty of History and Arts, at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (Germany).

 

Marco Elio Tabacchi is currently the Scientific Director of the Italian National Research & Survey Organization Demopolis, and a research assistant in the Soft Computing Group at University of Palermo (Italy).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Edificio de Investigación, European Centre for Soft Computing, Mieres (Asturias), Spain

    Rudolf Seising

  • , Department of Matematics and Informatics, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Marco Elio Tabacchi

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