Medical Nihilism
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-874704-8 (ISBN)
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.
Jacob Stegenga is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego, and he has held fellowships at the University of Toronto and the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. His research focuses on philosophy of science, including methodological problems of medical research, conceptual questions in evolutionary biology, and fundamental topics in reasoning and rationality.
1: Introduction
Part I. Concepts
2: Effectiveness of Medical Interventions
3: Effectiveness and Medicalization
4: Magic Bullets
Part II. Methods
5: Down with the Hierarchies
6: Malleability of Meta-Analysis
7: Assessing Medical Evidence
8: Measuring Effectiveness
9: Hollow Hunt for Harms
Part III. Evidence and Values
10: Bias and Fraud
11: Medical Nihilism
12: Conclusion
Appendix 1. Bayes' Theorem and Screening
Appendix 2. Measurement Scales
Appendix 3. Epistemic Proof of Superiority of RD over RR
Appendix 4. Decision-Theoretic Proof of Superiority of RD over RR
Appendix 5. Modeling the Measurement of Effectiveness
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.04.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-874704-7 / 0198747047 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-874704-8 / 9780198747048 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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