Fuzziness and medicine: philosophical reflections and application systems in health care: a companion volume to Sadegh-Zadeh's Handbook on analytical philosophy of medicine

Title -- Preface -- Abstracts -- Contents -- Part I Introductory Chapters -- Fuzziness, Philosophy, and Medicine -- Fuzzy Logic and Medicine -- The Structuralist View -- More Impressions from the Handbook -- References -- The Construction of Fuzziness -- Introduction -- The Nature of Fuzzy Logic -- Pure Science, Applied Science, and Practical Science -- What Does "Fuzzy Logic" Mean? -- What Kind of Science Is Fuzzy Logic? -- The Nature of Vagueness -- The Nature of Fuzziness -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- A "Goodbye to the Aristotelian Weltanschauung'' and a Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine -- Introduction -- The Systems View on Science -- Iatrophilosophy - A System View on Medicine -- From the Systems View to the "New View'' of Fuzzy Systems -- The "State" in System Theory -- The Fuzzification of Systems -- Fuzzy Sets and Systems in Medicine -- From Fuzzy Control to Fuzzy Medicine -- Medical Decision-Making -- Computer-Supported Medical Diagnostics -- The Geometry of Fuzzy Sets as Points in a Hypercube -- The Fuzzy Hypercube and Structures -- Fuzzy Entropy -- Fuzzy Health, Patienthood, Illness and Diseases -- The Fuzzification of the State of Health -- On Nosology - The Fuzzification of Diseases -- Concepts, Categories, and Prototypes -- Human Conditions -- Fuzziness of Human Conditions -- Similarity of Diseases -- The Prototype Resemblance Theory of Diseases -- Prototype Resemblance Structures -- Outlook: A Fuzzy Structuralist View on Scientific Theories -- References -- Specificities and Vagaries of Medicine from the Viewpoint of Hard Sciences -- Introduction -- Medicine as a Peculiar Science -- Fuzziness and the Art and Science of Medicine -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II Ethics, Philosophy, and Medicine -- Medical Ethics, Fuzzy Logic and Shared Decision Making -- Introduction