Medical Nihilism
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198747047
ISBN-13
9780198747048
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 15th, 2018
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
546 grams
Dimensions
24.00 x 17.30 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Medicine: general issuesPhilosophy of science
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Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. Jacob Stegenga argues persuasively that this is how we should see modern medicine, and suggests that medical research must be modified, clinical practice should be less aggressive, and regulatory standards should be enhanced.
This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low.
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