Explaining Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Medical Research and Clinical Practice
Raffaella Campaner
Explaining Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Medical Research and Clinical Practice
Raffaella Campaner
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Description
This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine.
Raffaella Campaner is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies of the University of Bologna. She has worked extensively in philosophy of medicine, publishing a number of contributions in journals and collected volumes, as well as a previous monograph (Philosophy of Medicine. Causality, Evidence and Explanation, 2012). Her research interests include causation, mechanism, scientific explanation and different kinds of pluralism. She is currently working on epistemological issues in modeling complex diseases, and on approaches to explanation of mental disorders.