01690cam a22002294a 4500 101108s2011 enka b 001 0 eng 9781405196673 SDU R723 H861 P 2011 Howick, Jeremy. 211284 The philosophy of evidence-based medicine / Jeremy Howick ; foreword by Paul Glasziou. Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, BMJ Books, 2011. 229 p. : ill. The philosophy of evidence-based medicine -- What is EBM? -- What is good evidence for a clinical decision? -- Ruling out plausible rival hypotheses and confounding factors : a method -- Resolving the paradox of effectiveness : when do observational studies offer the same degree of evidential support as randomized trials? -- Questioning double blinding as a universal methodological virtue of clinical trials : resolving the Philip's paradox -- Placebo controls : problematic and misleading baseline measures of effectiveness -- Questioning the methodological superiority of "placebo" over "active" controlled trials -- Examining the paradox that traditional roles for mechanistic reasoning and expert -- Judgment have been up-ended by EBM -- A qualified defence of the EBM stance on mechanistic reasoning -- Knowledge that versus knowledge how : situating the EBM position on expert clinical judgment -- Moving EBM forward. HKBU library Evidence-based medicine. Medicine Philosophy. 204824 Evidence-Based Medicine. Philosophy, Medical. 32581 = C.1 ศูนย์วิทยาศาสตร์ GBE lcc 109514 109514 0 0 lcc 0 R0723 H861 P2011 0 CGB 280337 SC SC GEN 2025-09-03 2 R723 H861 P 2011 1000364963 2025-09-03 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-03 GBE