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Miriam Solomon, “Making Medical Knowledge” (Oxford, 2015)
Miriam Solomon, “Making Medical Knowledge” (Oxford, 2015)
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64 minutes
Released:
Oct 15, 2015
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How are scientific discoveries transmitted to medical clinical practice? When the science is new, controversial, or simply unclear, how should a doctor advise his or her patients? How should information from large randomized controlled trials be weighed against the clinician’s hard-won judgment from treating hundreds of patients? These are some of the questions that are considered by Miriam Solomon in Making Medical Knowledge (Oxford University Press 2015). Solomon, who is professor of philosophy at Temple University, provides an historically grounded critical assessment of the methods used in recent decades to turn basic science results into medical knowledge: consensus conferences, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, and narrative medicine.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Oct 15, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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