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61Evidence-based ethics? On evidence-based practice and the "empirical turn" from normative bioethicsBMC Medical Ethics 6 (1): 11. 2005.BackgroundThe increase in empirical methods of research in bioethics over the last two decades is typically perceived as a welcomed broadening of the discipline, with increased integration of social and life scientists into the field and ethics consultants into the clinical setting, however it also represents a loss of confidence in the typical normative and analytic methods of bioethics.DiscussionThe recent incipiency of "Evidence-Based Ethics" attests to this phenomenon and should be rejected …Read more
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12From Popperian Science to Normal Science. Commentary on Sestini (2010).Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2): 306-310. 2010.
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6457On Evidence and Evidence-Based Medicine: Lessons from the Philosophy of ScienceSocial Science and Medicine 62 (11): 2621-2632. 2006.The evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement is touted as a new paradigm in medical education and practice, a description that carries with it an enthusiasm for science that has not been seen since logical positivism flourished (circa 1920–1950). At the same time, the term ‘‘evidence-based medicine’’ has a ring of obviousness to it, as few physicians, one suspects, would claim that they do not attempt to base their clinical decision-making on available evidence. However, the apparent obviousnes…Read more
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487Clinical evidence and the absent body in medical phenomenology: On the need for a new phenomenology of medicineInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3 (1): 43-71. 2010.The once animated efforts in medical phenomenology to integrate the art and science of medicine (or to humanize scientific medicine) have fallen out of philosophical fashion. Yet the current competing medical discourses of evidencebased medicine and patient-centered care suggest that this theoretical endeavor requires renewed attention. In this paper, I attempt to enliven the debate by discussing theoretical weaknesses in the way the “lived body” has operated in the medical phenomenology literat…Read more
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3761Public Misunderstanding of Science? Reframing the Problem of Vaccine HesitancyPerspectives on Science 24 (5): 552-581. 2016.The public rejection of scientific claims is widely recognized by scientific and governmental institutions to be threatening to modern democratic societies. Intense conflict between science and the public over diverse health and environmental issues have invited speculation by concerned officials regarding both the source of and the solution to the problem of public resistance towards scientific and policy positions on such hot-button issues as global warming, genetically modified crops, environ…Read more
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21MA Thesis. Biomedical ethics does not lend itself to easy categorisation as either a 'theoretical' or a 'practical' enterprise because inquiry into the quandaries of morality requires both situational and 'translocal' perspectives. These types of investigation bring into question the legitimacy of the theory/practice divide that has dominated intellectual thought since antiquity. This division hinders the development of bioethics by fostering internal dispute within the discipline regarding appr…Read more
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88From Popperian science to normal science. Commentary on Sestini (2009) 'Epistemology and ethics of evidence‐based medicine'Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2): 306-309. 2010.
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