Diagnosis
4 papers and posts.
Causal Relevance (Philosophy of Diagnosis, Part 3)
This series of philosophical papers unpacks six philosophical issues in diagnostics and develops a pluralistic model of diagnosis. This paper analyses the role of causal relevance in diagnostics. Are diagnoses defined by their causal relevance to symptoms?
Pathognomy, Sine Qua Non and Constitutive Matching (Philosophy of Diagnosis, Part 2)
This series of philosophical papers unpacks six philosophical issues in diagnostics and develops a pluralistic model of diagnosis. This paper presents a set of minimal constraints which any theory of diagnostics must satisfy based on pathognomy and sine qua non relationships.
Problems of Diagnosis (Philosophy of Diagnosis, Part 1)
This series of philosophical papers unpacks six philosophical issues in diagnostics and develops a pluralistic model of diagnosis. This introductory paper outlines the six roles of diagnostics and distinguishes and relates the six problems of diagnosis.
Failures of Diagnosis
Of late, a confusion has emerged in the diagnostic and philosophical literature concerning the ways in which diagnostic failure can occur. It's rare to see clear attempts at a taxonomy of diagnostic failure. Here, I want to disambiguate a number of ways in which clinicians...