Miriam Solomon

Making Medical Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

How is medical knowledge made? There have been radical changes in recent decades, through new methods such as consensus conferences, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, and narrative medicine. Miriam Solomon explores their origins, aims, and epistemic strengths and weaknesses; and she offers a pluralistic approach for the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780192872296
• ISBN-10: 019287229X
• Artikelnr.: 66163388

Autorenporträt

Miriam Solomon is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She has a BA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University. Her first book was Social Empiricism (MIT Press, 2001) and she is the author of many articles in philosophy of medicine, philosophy of science, gender and science, epistemology and bioethics. She is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction: Beyond the art and science of medicine
* 2: 'NIH's window to the health care community': the NIH Consensus
Development Conference Program
* 3: From the NIH model to the Danish model: the medical consensus
conference movement
* 4: Philosophical interlude: objectivity and democracy in consensus
conferences
* 5: Evidence-based medicine as empiric medicine
* 6: The fallibility of evidence-based medicine
* 7: What is translational medicine?
* 8: On narrative medicine
* 9: A developing, untidy, methodological pluralism
* Concluding thoughts
* Bibliography
* Index