Uncertainty in Pharmacology Epistemology, Methods, and Decisions /

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: LaCaze, Adam (Editor), Osimani, Barbara (Editor)
Summary:XIII, 470 p. 48 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 338
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29179-2
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505 0 |a Part I. Epistemology -- 1. Defining Aspects of Mechanisms: Evidence-Based Mechanism (Evidence for a Mechanism), Mechanism-Based Evidence (Evidence from a Mechanism), and Mechanistic Reasoning -- 2. Causal Insights from Failure: Post-Marketing Risk Assessment of Drugs as aWay to Uncover Causal Mechanisms -- 3. Extrapolating from Model Organisms in Pharmacology -- 4. "Mechanistic Versus Statistical Extrapolation in Preclinical Research in Psychiatry: Challenging the Received View" -- 5. Analogy-Based Inference Patterns in Pharmacological Research -- 6. "In Silico Clinical Trials: a Possible Response to Complexity in Pharmacology" -- 7. "Uncertainty in Drug Discovery: Strategies, Heuristics and Technologies" -- 8. “Caught in the Amber”: a Sketch of Chemical Underdetermination -- Part II. Methods -- 9. A Millian Look at the Logic of Clinical Trials -- 10. "Learning by Difference: Placebo Effects and Specific Efficacy in Pharmacological RCTs" -- 11. "An Evidence-Hierarchical Decision Aid for Rankingin Evidence-Based Medicine" -- 12. "Assessing Drug Safety Assessment: Metformin Associated Lactic Acidosis" -- 13. Robust Biomarkers: Methodologically Tracking Causal Processes in Alzheimer’s Measurement -- 14. "Modelling Individual Response to Treatment and its Uncertainty: a Review of Statistical Methods and Challenges for Future Research" -- Part III. Decisions -- 15. Values in Pharmacology -- 16. "Humbug, the Council of Pharmacy and Chemistry, and the Origin of “the Blind Test” of Therapeutic Efficacy" -- 17. On the Normative Foundations of Pharmaceutical Regulation -- 18. After Disclosure -- 19. Sex, Drugs, and how to Deal with Criticism—The Case of Flibanserin. 
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