Feinstein A.R. Clinical judgment

Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1967. — 430 p.Prologue: By Way of Background.
The Clinician's Challenge in Experimental Science.
Clinical Judgment and the Experiments of Clinical Therapy.
The Evolution of Clinical Investigation.
Scientific Method in Clinical and Laboratory Experiments.
Conceptual Barriers to Clinical Science.
The Diagnostic Taxonomy of Disease: Past and Present.
The Diagnostic Taxonomy of Disease: Problems in Criteria.
The Diagnostic Taxonomy of Disease: Problems in Therapy.
Principles of Clinical Taxonomy.
Types, Uses, and Attributes of Clinical Data.
Classification of Clinical Behavior of a Disease.
A Clinical Primer of the "New" Mathematics.
Spectrums of Disease and Other "Mathemedical" Constructions.
Biologic and Statistical Implications of Clinical Taxonomy.
Evaluation of Therapeutic Accomplishment.
The Objectives of Treatment.
Indexes and Criteria of Therapeutic Response.
Retrospection, Experience, and Medical Records.
Acquisition of Clinical Data.
Art, Science, and Clinical Observation.
Art in Clinical Examination.
Science in Clinical Examination: Objectivity and Precision.
Science in Clinical Examination: Standardization.
Conclusions The Human Regulation of Technology.
The Scientific Domain of the Investigative Clinician.