{"product_id":"philosophy-of-molecular-medicine-9780367736699","title":"Philosophy of Molecular Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Molecular Medicine: Foundational Issues in Theory and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e aims at a systematic investigation of a number of foundational issues in the field of molecular medicine. The volume is organized around four broad modules focusing, respectively, on the following key aspects: What are the nature, scope, and limits of molecular medicine? How does it provide explanations? How does it represent and model phenomena of interest? How does it infer new knowledge from data and experiments? The essays collected here, authored by prominent scientists and philosophers of science, focus on a handful of mainstream topics in the philosophical literature, such as \u003ci\u003ecausation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eexplanation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003emodeling\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003escientific inference\u003c\/i\u003e. These previously unpublished contributions shed new light on these traditional topics by integrating them with problems, methods, and results from three prominent areas of contemporary biomedical science: \u003ci\u003ebasic research\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003etran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilosophy of Molecular Medicine offers 12 insightful chapters of philosophical and historical reflections on foundational issues in molecular medicine. This edited volume offers a rich introduction to and discussion of important philosophical issues that arise at the interface of basic science, clinical research, and clinical practice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Sara Green, \u003cem\u003eSpringer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiovanni Boniolo and Marco J. Nathan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Nature, Origins, and Scope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 1: Molecular medicine: the clinical method enters the lab. What tumor heterogeneity and primary tumor culture teach us \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiovanni Boniolo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 2: Personalized Medicine: Historical Roots of a Medical Model \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMariacarla Gadebusch Bondio and Francesco Spöring\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 3: From the concept of genetic disease to the geneticization of diseases: analyzing and solving the paradox of contemporary medical genetics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie Darrason \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Explanation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 4: Molecular complexity: Why has psychiatry not been revolutionized by genomics (yet)? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaël Lemoine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 5: How cancer spreads: reconceptualizing a disease \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine E. Liu, Alan C. Love, and Michael Travisano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 6: Evolutionary Perspectives on Molecular Medicine: Cancer from an Evolutionary Perspective \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnya Plutynski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: Representation and Modeling \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 7: Towards a Notion of Intervention in Big-Data Biology and Molecular Medicine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFederico Boem and Emanuele Ratti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 8: Pathways to the clinic: cancer stem cells and challenges for translational research \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelinda Bonnie Fagan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 9: Counterfactual Reasoning in Molecular Medicine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarco J. Nathan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4: Inference \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 10: Forms of Extrapolation in Molecular Medicine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePierre-Luc Germain and Tudor Baetu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 11: Testing Oncological Treatments in the Era of Personalized Medicine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Teira\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 12: Opportunities and challenges of molecular epidemiology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFederica Russo and Paolo Vineis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884067500375,"sku":"9780367736699","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367736699.jpg?v=1722530288","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/philosophy-of-molecular-medicine-9780367736699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}