Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged? How Scientific Evidence Shapes Our Understanding And Use Of Medicine
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ArticlePublication details: Springer Nature J.B. Metzler [Imprint] 2020Description: 1 electronic resource (148 p.)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- Medicine and Nursing
- Medicine: general issues
- Mathematics and Science
- Science: general issues
- Philosophy of science
- Philosophy and Religion
- Philosophy
- Bench to bedside
- Clinical Medicine
- ECMO
- Epistemology
- Evidence-based medicine
- External validity
- Hahnemann Edzard Ernst
- Homeopathy
- Informed consent
- Jeremy Howick
- Medicine
- Open Access
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of Medicine
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of medicine
- Philosophy of science
- Placebo
- Public Health
- Randomised controlled trials
- Thomas Kuhn
- Tuskegee
- general
- general issues
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This open access book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine" (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, Marie-Caroline Schulte discusses the importance of evi-dence in medical research and practice with a focus on the ethical and methodological prob-lems of EBM. The claims that EBM can herald a new theory of epistemology and a Kuhnian paradigm will be refuted. The solution is to describe EBM as a necessary development in medicine to deal with the increasing amount of evidence and medical data without loosing the single patient out of sight.
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