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Making Medical Knowledge
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015)
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How is medical knowledge made? There have been radical changes in recent decades, through new methods such as consensus conferences, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, and narrative medicine. Miriam Solomon explores their origins, aims, and epistemic strengths and weaknesses; and she offers a pluralistic approach for the futureAuthor's Profile
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Introduction
Chapter 1 introduces consensus conferences, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine and narrative medicine. It shows that each was introduced with claims about how transformative for medicine it would prove to be. It motivates the book by raising initial questions about each method... see more
“NIH’s Window to the Health Care Community”
In this chapter, the history of the NIH Consensus Development Conference Program (1977–2013) is discussed, with a focus on the creation of the program, the evaluations of the program, and the changes in the program over time. The conferences aimed to be perceived as democratic and objectiv... see more
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