Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient: A Causehealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter (Hardcover, 2020)

Introduction What is the CauseHealth Handbook?.- Part I Philosophy Chapter 1 Dispositions and the Single Patient.- Chapter 2 Probability for the Clinic.- Chapter 3 When a Cause Cannot be Found.- Chapter 4 Reductionism and the Biomedical Model.- Chapter 5 The Guidelines Challenge.- Part II Practice Chapter 6 Above and Beyond Statistical Evidence. Why Stories Matter for Clinical Decisions and Shared Decision Making.- Chapter 7 The Complexity of Persistent Pain ? A Patient’s Perspective.- Chapter 8 Causality and Dispositionality for Diagnosis in Medical Practice.- Chapter 9 Lessons from a Clinic for Patients with Severe Obesity.- Chapter 10 Reflections on the Clinician’s Role in the Clinical Encounter.- Chapter 11 Psychotherapy in a Conditional World ? A Plea for Causal Dispositionalism.- Chapter 12 Evidence-Based Healthcare and dispositionalism.- Chapter 13 The Practice of Whole Person Centred Healthcare.- Chapter 14 A Broken Child, a Diseased Woman.- Conclusion Toward a New Paradigm