Laurence R Tancredi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4488248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence R Tancredi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence R |
| FAMILY NAME | Tancredi |
| SIGNATURE | TANCREDI L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Academy of Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hardwired Behavior
This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions. Findings show that the mind and brain are very close, if not the same, and that the brain 'makes' the mind. This is bringing about a change of focus from examining mental activity (mentalism) to the physical activity of the brain (physicalism) to understand thinking and behavior. We are discovering that the physic…
Hardwired behavior
The Concept of Moral Consensus
Biological Diagnostics
Book reviewed in this article: Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information. By Dorothy Nelkin and Laurence Tancredi
Dangerous Diagnostics
Ethical Issues in Epidemiologic Research
Identifying Avoidable Adverse Events in Medicine
The 330 malpractice cases involving orthopedic surgery that reached the Appellate Court and occurred between 1910 and 1972 were examined for determining medical events that could be considered by the profession as highly avoidable. When these cases were reviewed, they were sorted to eliminate those that were not by their very character evident of relatively highly avoidable adverse events. The remaining cases, which numbered approximately 117, we…
Technology and Health Care Decision Making???Conceptualizing the Process for Societal Informed Consent
Medical technology is having major effects on health care decision making at the patient-physician interaction, community-health care institution, and society-national government levels. This impact is characterized by three processes—diffusion of decision making through the increase of possible alternatives, the relinquishing of part of the role of decision maker to others in the health care system, and the shift of some of the decision making p…
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Identifying Avoidable Adverse Events in Medicine
The 330 malpractice cases involving orthopedic surgery that reached the Appellate Court and occurred between 1910 and 1972 were examined for determining medical events that could be considered by the profession as highly avoidable. When these cases were reviewed, they were sorted to eliminate those that were not by their very character evident of relatively highly avoidable adverse events. The remaining cases, which numbered approximately 117, we…
Technology and Health Care Decision Making???Conceptualizing the Process for Societal Informed Consent
Medical technology is having major effects on health care decision making at the patient-physician interaction, community-health care institution, and society-national government levels. This impact is characterized by three processes—diffusion of decision making through the increase of possible alternatives, the relinquishing of part of the role of decision maker to others in the health care system, and the shift of some of the decision making p…
Ethical Issues in Epidemiologic Research
Biological Diagnostics
Book reviewed in this article: Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information. By Dorothy Nelkin and Laurence Tancredi
Dangerous Diagnostics
The Concept of Moral Consensus
Hardwired Behavior
This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions. Findings show that the mind and brain are very close, if not the same, and that the brain 'makes' the mind. This is bringing about a change of focus from examining mental activity (mentalism) to the physical activity of the brain (physicalism) to understand thinking and behavior. We are discovering that the physic…
Hardwired behavior
Political science (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Healthcare cost, quality, practices (2 works) · Law (2 works) · MEDLINE (2 works) · Neuroscience (2 works)