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Medical nihilism /
Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This work argues that medical nihilism is a compelling view of modern medicine. If we consider the frequency of failed medical interventions, the extent of misleading evidence in medical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: concepts
- Effectiveness of medical interventions
- Effectiveness and medicalization
- Magic bullets
- Part II : methods
- Down with the hierarchies
- Malleability of meta-analysis
- Assessing medical evidence
- Measuring effectiveness
- Hollow hunt for harms
- Part III : Evidence and values
- Bias and fraud
- Medical nihilism.