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In 1986, the emergence of a novel brain disease in British cattle presented a unique challenge to scientists. How that challenge was addressed has been the subject of a public inquiry and numerous academic studies conducted to date. However, none of these investigations has sought to examine the reasoning of scientists during this critical period in the public health of the UK. Using concepts and techniques in informal logic, argumentation and fallacy theory, this study reconstructs and evaluates the reasoning of scientists in the ten-year period between 1986 and 1996. Specifically, a form of presumptive reasoning is described in which extensive use is made of arguments traditionally identified as informal fallacies. In the context of the adverse epistemic conditions that confronted scientists during the BSE epidemic, these arguments were anything but fallacious, serving instead to confer a number of epistemic gains upon scientific inquiry. This book argues for a closer integration of philosophy with public health science, an integration that is exemplified by the case of scientific reasoning during the BSE affair. It will therefore be of interest to advanced students, academics, researchers and professionals in the areas of public health science and epidemiology, as well as philosophical disciplines such as informal logic, argumentation and fallacy theory and epistemology.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. --- Mad cow disease. --- Prion diseases. --- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy --- Reasoning --- Fallacies (Logic) --- Logic --- Science --- Prion Diseases --- Philosophy --- Europe --- Cattle Diseases --- Dementia --- Public Health --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Neurodegenerative Diseases --- Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders --- Medicine --- Central Nervous System Infections --- Geographic Locations --- Animal Diseases --- Brain Diseases --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Humanities --- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome --- Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform --- Epidemiology --- Great Britain --- Health Occupations --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Diseases --- Geographicals --- Nervous System Diseases --- Mental Disorders --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Microbiology & Immunology --- Cattle --- Virus diseases. --- BSE (Disease) --- Mad cow disease --- Spongiform encephalopathy, Bovine --- Medicine. --- Epistemology. --- Logic. --- Philosophy and science. --- Epidemiology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Medicine/Public Health, general. --- Prion diseases in animals --- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease --- Virus diseases --- Genetic epistemology. --- Philosophy. --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Developmental psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Public health --- Methodology --- Health Workforce --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Science and philosophy --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Medical sciences. --- Health Sciences. --- Basic medical sciences --- Basic sciences, Medical --- Biomedical sciences --- Health sciences --- Preclinical sciences --- Sciences, Medical

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Gives the reader an insight into various concepts, theories, issues and scholars that have shaped the field of pragmatics.

Pragmatics --- Pragmatiek --- encyclopedieën. --- woordenboeken. --- 800 <031> --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Encyclopedieën. Lexica --- 800 <031> Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Encyclopedieën. Lexica --- 801.57 --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- 801.57 Pragmatiek --- Philosophy --- Pragmatique --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopédies --- Encyclopedieën. --- Woordenboeken.

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“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.

Medical misconceptions. --- Critical thinking. --- Fallacies (Logic) --- Errors, Logical --- Sophisms (Logic) --- Sophistry (Logic) --- Judgment (Logic) --- Logic --- Reasoning --- Delusions, Medical --- Health misconceptions --- Medical delusions --- Medical superstitions --- Medicine --- Misconceptions, Medical --- Common fallacies --- Medical errors --- Critical reflection --- Reflection (Critical thinking) --- Reflection process --- Reflective thinking --- Thinking, Critical --- Thinking, Reflective --- Thought and thinking --- Reflective learning --- Superstitions --- Applied linguistics. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Medical policy. --- Medicine—Philosophy. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Health Policy. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects

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An introduction to 'clinical linguistics', a complex field of study that draws upon a range of linguistic, medical and other disciplines. It will introduce students to a wide range of developmental and acquired communication disorders.

Applied linguistics. --- Language disorders. --- Communicative disorders. --- Communication disorders (Medicine) --- Disorders of communication --- Nervous system --- Dysphasia --- Communicative disorders --- Linguistics --- Diseases

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Providing a comprehensive introduction to speech and language therapy, this book introduces students to the linguistic, medical, scientific and psychological disciplines that lie at the foundation of this health profession. As well as examining foundational disciplines the volume also addresses professional issues in speech and language therapy and examines how therapists assess and treat clients with communication and swallowing disorders. The book makes extensive use of group exercises that allows SLT students opportunity for practice-based learning. It also includes multiple case studies to encourage discussion of assessment and intervention practices and end-of-chapter questions with complete answers to test knowledge and understanding. As well as providing a solid theoretical grounding in communication disorders, this volume will equip students with a range of professional skills, such as how to treat patients, how to diagnose and assess clients, how to help parents support children with communication disabilities, and how to assess the effectiveness of the various practices and methods used in intervention.

Speech therapy. --- Communicative disorders --- Communication disorders (Medicine) --- Disorders of communication --- Nervous system --- Speech correction --- Speech disorders --- Therapeutics --- Diagnosis. Language therapy. --- Diseases --- Treatment --- Language therapy.