Uncertainty in Pharmacology Epistemology, Methods, and Decisions /

Bibliographic Details
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
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.