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Experimentation in Medicine
This chapter distinguishes three forms of experimentation in medical practice, emerging at different periods of the history of medicine: (1) clinical...
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Navigating the uncommon: challenges in applying evidence-based medicine to rare diseases and the prospects of artificial intelligence solutions
The study of rare diseases has long been an area of challenge for medical researchers, with agonizingly slow movement towards improved understanding...
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Personalized Medicine Beyond Stratification
Modern personalized medicine or precision medicine (PM) promises to take medical epistemology and evidence-based medicine a step further by...
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The Philosophy of Medicine Versus Medicine
Literature on the philosophy of medicine is characterized by a thirst for generalities. Wittgenstein’s remarks on family resemblances are intended as...
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Explanatory integration and integrated explanations in Darwinian medicine and evolutionary medicine
Recently, two research traditions that bring together evolutionary biology and medicine, that is to say, Darwinian medicine and evolutionary...
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Precision Medicine
Precision medicine combines genetic, environmental and lifestyle variability to inform disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention, allowing exact...
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Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice
The existing philosophical views on what is the meaning of causality adequate to medicine are vastly divided. We approach this question and offer two...
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Its Relationship to Western Medicine
CAM is an acronym combining two terms, “complementary medicine” and “alternative medicine,” both of which are recent. The definitions of CAM point...
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Understanding in Medicine
This paper aims to clarify the nature of understanding in medicine. The first part describes in more detail what it means to understand something and...
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Evolution and Evolutionary Medicine in Disease
Evolution has a very strict definition and is very central to evolutionary biology itself when the canonized evolutionary understandings of...
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New Developments in Evolutionary Theory and Evolutionary Medicine, New Frontiers for Evolutionary Medicine
The central idea of the chapter is, how new developments in evolutionary biology make us see inheritance in new ways, and these new ways create new...
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Medicine, emotience, and reason
Medicine is faced with a number of intractable modern challenges that can be understood in terms of hyper-intellectualization; a compassion crisis,...
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Epistemologies of evidence-based medicine: a plea for corpus-based conceptual research in the medical humanities
Evidence-based medicine has been the subject of much controversy within and outside the field of medicine, with its detractors characterizing it as...
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The indispensability of race in medicine
A movement asking to take race out of medicine is growing in the US. While we agree with the necessity to get rid of flawed assumptions about...
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Normality in medicine: an empirical elucidation
BackgroundNormality is both a descriptive and a normative concept. Undoubtedly, the normal often operates normatively as an exclusionary tool of...
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Clinical Diagnosis: Evidence, Ethics, and Justice
The process of clinical diagnosis is the cornerstone of modern medical practice. In this chapter, it will be shown that in order to facilitate...
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The Origin and Foundation of Medicine
This chapter covers the ontology of medicine. Medicine is not initially based on the concept of disease, but rather on actual or potential biological...
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A logic framework for addressing medical racism in academic medicine: an analysis of qualitative data
BackgroundDespite decades of anti-racism and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) interventions in academic medicine, medical racism continues to...
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From Digital Medicine to Embodied Care
Through this contribution I aim to explore the horizons and limits of digital medicine in light of an embodied approach to the issue of care. I will...
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Exploring health and disease concepts in healthcare practice: an empirical philosophy of medicine study
In line with recent proposals for experimental philosophy and philosophy of science in practice, we propose that the philosophy of medicine could...