Fallacies in Medicine and Health: Critical Thinking, Argumentation and Communication

by Louise Cummings

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303028512X
• ISBN13: 9783030285128
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"