Part I The Language of Medicine -- 1. The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language -- 2. The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language.-  3. The Pragmatics of Medical Language -- 4. Varieties of Medical Concepts.-  5. Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation -- Part II Medical Praxiology.-  6. The Patient -- 7. The Physician.-  8. Clinical Practice -- Part III Medical Epistemology -- 9. The Architecture of Medical Knowledge -- 10. Types of Medical Knowledge -- 11. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Medical Knowledge -- 12. Technoconstructivism -- Part IV Medical Deontics .-   13. Morality, Ethics, and Deontics -- 14. Disease as a Deontic Construct -- 15. Medicine Is a Deontic Discipline -- Part V Medical Logic -- Logic in Medicine -- 17. The Logic of Medicine -- Part VI Medical Metaphysics.-   18. On What There Are -- 19. Medical Ontology -- 20. On Medical Truth -- 21. On the Nature of Medicine -- Part VII Epilog -- 22. Science, Medicine, and Rationality -- 23. Perspectivism -- 24. The Doubter -- Part VIII Logical Fundamentals -- 25. Classical Sets 25 -- 26 Classical Logic -- 27. Modal Extensions of Classical Logic -- 28. Non-Classical Logics -- 29. Probability Logic -- 30. Fuzzy Logic.   .

  Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing the logic and methodology of clinical decision-making; 4. suggesting comprehensive theories of organism, life, and psyche; of health, illness, and disease; of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and therapy; and 5. investigating the moral and metaphysical issues central to medical practice and research.