Introduction to Abduction and Medicine: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention

Abstract

The relation between a patient’s signs and symptoms and codified clinical and epidemiological knowledge can be extremely complex and usually provides the ground to formulate a clinical judgment. The chapters of this part focus in particular on the role of abductive reasoning in clinical practice and critically investigate the contribution of abductive inferences in formulating medical judgments in the fields of diagnostics, prognostics, and for the selection of treatment options.