Jacob Stegenga: Medical Nihilism | Buch

Cover: 9780198747048 | Medical Nihilism | Jacob Stegenga | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2018

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780198747048
ISBN-10:	0198747047
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Stegenga, Jacob
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	240 x 161 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Jacob Stegenga
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.2018
Gewicht:	0,531 kg