Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty

by Louise Cummings

Book Overview

This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty.

The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of these strategies during consideration of public health problems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319362429
• ISBN13: 9783319362427
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"