Medical Nihilism
Medical Nihilism Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. If we consider the frequency of failed medical interventions, the…
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Medical Nihilism
Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. If we consider the frequency of failed medical interventions, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods in medicine, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions ought to be low. This volume argues that medical nihilism is a compelling view of modern medicine.
Part II critically examines details of medical research. Part I articulates theoretical and conceptual groundwork, in which Jacob Stegenga offers a defence of a hybrid theory of disease, which forms the basis of a novel account of effectiveness, and applies this to pharmacological science and to issues such as medicalization. Even the very
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