Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged? How Scientific Evidence Shapes Our Understanding And Use Of Medicine

• Autore principale: Schulte, Marie-Caroline (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Springer Nature 2020
• Soggetti: Philosophy of science; Philosophy; Medicine: general issues; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Medicine; Medicine/Public Health, general; Clinical Medicine; Philosophy of medicine; Hahnemann Edzard Ernst; Jeremy Howick; Thomas Kuhn; Homeopathy; Epistemology; Informed consent; ECMO; Tuskegee; Placebo; Bench to bedside; External validity; Randomised controlled trials; Evidence-based medicine; Open Access
• Accesso online: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Riassunto

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. ​

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (148 p.)

ISBN

978-3-476-05703-7

Accesso

Open Access