TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howick,Jeremy
TI  - The philosophy of evidence-based medicine
SN  - 9781405196673
AV  - R723 H861 P 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, UK
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell, BMJ Books
KW  - Evidence-based medicine
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW  - Philosophy, Medical
N1  - 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
ER  -