Marie-Caroline Schulte

Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged?

How Scientific Evidence Shapes Our Understanding And Use Of Medicine

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: J.B. Metzler / Schulte, Marie-Caroline
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-476-05705-1
• 1st ed. 2020
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9783476057051
• ISBN-10: 3476057054
• Artikelnr.: 60148113

Autorenporträt

M.-C. Schulte has studied philosophy and history in the US and finished her MSc in philoso-phy and history of science at LSE. She did her PhD in philosophy of science, focus on medi-cine, at Hamburg University. She works freelance in an advisory capacity for NGOs working in the medical field and writes articles in her area of expertise.

Inhaltsangabe

The methodology of evidence-based research.- Informed consent and shared decision making in EBM (Evidence-based medicine).- Knowledge does not equal evidence - what to do with what we have evidence for?.- Homeopathy - a case in point why EBM is so important - or "the plural of anecdote is not data." .