Medical Nihilism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Jacob Stegenga, Jacob (University of Cambridge) Stegenga

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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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Utgivningsdatum2018-03-15
Mått164 x 241 x 24 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor242
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198747048

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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: IntroductionPart I. Concepts2: Effectiveness of Medical Interventions3: Effectiveness and Medicalization4: Magic BulletsPart II. Methods5: Down with the Hierarchies6: Malleability of Meta-Analysis7: Assessing Medical Evidence8: Measuring Effectiveness9: Hollow Hunt for HarmsPart III. Evidence and Values10: Bias and Fraud11: Medical Nihilism12: ConclusionAppendix 1. Bayes' Theorem and ScreeningAppendix 2. Measurement ScalesAppendix 3. Epistemic Proof of Superiority of RD over RRAppendix 4. Decision-Theoretic Proof of Superiority of RD over RRAppendix 5. Modeling the Measurement of Effectiveness