Overview

This book explores applications of decision-making primarily in health care but also presents examples dealing with environmental challenges and international affairs. It gives recent evidence of failures in each of these sectors and attempts to explain how such errors recur. It then describes some medical approaches to decision-making, evidence-based medicine, guidelines, epidemiology, risk assessment, prevention and screening and how they might apply beyond the world of medicine, even to international affairs. Guidelines and decision-making in medical practice are frequently premised on fundamental logical fallacies and questionable assumptions. These include faulty end points, surrogate indicators and a failure to understand the difference between causation and association. Such mistakes also occur in international affairs, and seem to be related to narrowly reductionist, 'Scientistic' or 'Realist' approaches, which ignore biases and distortions to objective decision-making. Reasons for acceptance of such failures include perceived self-interest and various cognitive distortions promoted in each sector by corporate use of media, think tanks, key opinion leaders, consumer or citizen groups, all which appeal to fears and uncertainties. Recommendations are made for changes to achieve more robust decision-making in each of medicine, environment and international affairs.

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Author:   Neil Arya
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9781604566253

ISBN 10:   1604566256
Pages:   131
Publication Date:   01 November 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; The Failure of Medical Decision-Making; Deciding What's Safe and What's Not; Science and Scientism; Objectivity in Medical Decision-Making; Science-Based Decision-Making in International Affairs; Faulty Assumptions of Scientism; Limitations of Conventional Medical Decision-Making Processes; Scientism in International Affairs - The Failures of Realism; Subjectivity in Decision-Making; Cognitive Distortions in Medicine and International Affairs; Bounded Rationality; Distorting Decision-Making the Tactics and Goals of the Corporation; Distorting Decision-Making the Tools of the Corporation; Unbounding Rationality - The End of Scientistic Thinking and Corporate - Military Control of Decision-Making; Conclusion; References; Index.

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