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Knowing and Acting in Medicine (Hardcover)
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Knowing and Acting in Medicine (Hardcover)
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What roles do different kinds of knowledge play in medicine? What
roles should they play? What standards (epistemic, ethical,
practical) should be met before knowledge is used to develop policy
or practice? Medical decision-making, whether in the clinic or at
the policy level, can have serious and far-reaching consequences.
It is therefore important to base decisions on the best available
knowledge. Yet deciding what should count as the best available
knowledge is not easy. This important book addresses philosophical
questions about what kinds of knowledge should be taken into
account, and how knowledge should inform practice and policy. The
chapters in this volume examine the relationship between knowledge
and action in medical research, practice, and policy. "Knowledge"
is broadly construed to include knowledge from clinical,
laboratory, or social science research, and from the clinical
encounter, as well as broader background assumptions prevalent in
society that inform both the kinds of knowledge that are taken to
be relevant to medicine and how that knowledge is interpreted in
decision-making. Such knowledge may be relevant not only to
clinical decision-making with regard to the care of individual
patients, but also to the practice of scientific research, the
development of policy and practice guidelines, and decisions made
by patients or by patient advocacy groups.
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