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Cummings, Louise.

Fallacies in medicine and healthcritical thinking, argumentation and communication /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fallacies in medicine and healthby Louise Cummings.
Reminder of title:	critical thinking, argumentation and communication /
Author:	Cummings, Louise.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xvii, 295 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Fallacies (Logic)
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28513-5
ISBN:	9783030285135$q(electronic bk.)

Fallacies in medicine and healthcritical thinking, argumentation and communication /
Cummings, Louise.

Fallacies in medicine and healthcritical thinking, argumentation and communication /[electronic resource] :by Louise Cummings. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xvii, 295 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1: Critical Thinking in Medicine and Health -- Chapter 2: Arguing from Ignorance -- Chapter 3: Slippery Slope Arguments -- Chapter 4: Fear Appeal Arguments -- Chapter 5: Appeals to Expertise -- Chapter 6: Argument from Analogy -- Chapter 7: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.

"Louise Cummings' Fallacies in Medicine and Health is essential reading for health-care practitioners and policy makers and for professional fallacy-theorists as well. Louise Cummings has played a pioneering role in finding useful work for fallacy theory to do in contexts in which faulty diagnoses, misjudged treatment protocols or unrealistic prognoses can be fatal. To achieve the book's objectives, it has been necessary for its author to secure scientific standing on both sides of the disciplinary divide from which her project proceeds. Fallacies in Medicine and Health merits a large and welcoming reception in both places." - John Woods, Director of The Abductive Systems Group, University of British Columbia, Canada This textbook examines the ways in which arguments may be used and abused in medicine and health. The central claim is that a group of arguments known as the informal fallacies - including slippery slope arguments, fear appeal, and the argument from ignorance - undertake considerable work in medical and health contexts, and that they can in fact be rationally warranted ways of understanding complex topics, contrary to the views of many earlier philosophers and logicians. Modern medicine and healthcare require lay people to engage with increasingly complex decisions in areas such as immunization, lifestyle and dietary choices, and health screening. Many of the so-called fallacies of reasoning can also be viewed as cognitive heuristics or short-cuts which help individuals make decisions in these contexts. Using features such as learning objectives, case studies and end-of-unit questions, this textbook examines topical issues and debates in all areas of medicine and health, including antibiotic use and resistance, genetic engineering, euthanasia, addiction to prescription opioids, and the legalization of cannabis. It will be useful to students of critical thinking, reasoning, logic, argumentation, rhetoric, communication, health humanities, philosophy and linguistics. Louise Cummings is Professor in the Department of English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. She has published and edited 18 books in public health reasoning, communication disorders, pragmatics, and clinical linguistics. She is Visiting Professor at York St John University in the UK, and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.

ISBN: 9783030285135$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-28513-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

297114
Fallacies (Logic)

LC Class. No.: BC175 / .C85 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 165

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