Medical Nihilism

Medical Nihilism
Authors
Stegenga, Jacob
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Tags
philosophy , health , science
Date
2018-05-15T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.74 MB
Lang
en
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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.