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Philosophy of medicine: between clinical trials and mechanisms

Jeremy Howick: The philosophy of evidence-based medicine. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 248pp, £37.99/€45.60 PB

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Acknowledgments

I thank Brendan Clarke, Donald Gillies and Phyllis Illari for the many interesting and insightful discussions about causality, evidence-based medicine and the ‘Russo-Williamson thesis’. Financial support from the British Academy is also gratefully acknowledged.

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Russo, F. Philosophy of medicine: between clinical trials and mechanisms. Metascience 21, 387–390 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9630-5

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