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Making Medical Knowledge
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Abstract Consensus conferences, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, and narrative medicine are among the most prominent new methods in medicine. This book explores their origins and aims, their epistemic strengths, and their epistemic weaknesses. The book argues that the familiar dichotomy between the art and the science of medicine is not adequate for understanding this methodological pluralism. The book begins by tracing the development of medical consensus conferences, from their beginning at the United States’ National Institutes of Health in 1977, to their widespread adoption in national and international contexts. It discusses consensus conferences as social epistemic institutions designed to embody democracy and achieve objectivity. Evidence-based medicine, which developed next, ranks expert consensus at the bottom of the evidence hierarchy, thus challenging the authority of consensus conferences. Evidence-based medicine has transformed both medical research and clinical medicine in many positive ways, but it has also been accused of creating an intellectual hegemony that has marginalized crucial stages of scientific research, particularly scientific discovery. Translational medicine is understood as a response to the shortfalls of both consensus conferences and evidence-based medicine. Narrative medicine is the most prominent recent development in the medical humanities. Its central claim is that attention to narrative is essential for patient care. The book argues that the differences between narrative medicine and the other methods have been exaggerated, and offers a pluralistic account of how all the methods interact and sometimes conflict. The result yields suggestions for how to improve medical knowledge and understand medical controversies.
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Solomon, M. (2015). Making Medical Knowledge. Oxford University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732617.001.0001
Solomon, Miriam. “Making Medical Knowledge.” Oxford University Press eBooks, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732617.001.0001.
Solomon, Miriam. 2015. “Making Medical Knowledge.” Oxford University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732617.001.0001.
Solomon, M. (2015) ‘Making Medical Knowledge’, Oxford University Press eBooks. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732617.001.0001.
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