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77Clinical 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.Medical discourse currently manages two broad visionary movements: "evidence-based medicine," the effort to make clinical medicine more responsive to the medical research, and "patient-centered care," the platform for a more humane health-care encounter. There have been strong calls to synthesize the two as "evidence-based patient-centred care" (Lacy and Backer 2008; see also Borgmeyer 2005; Baumann, Lewis, and Gutterman 2007; Krahn and Naglie 2008), yet many question the compatibility of the tw…Read more
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127Innovating Medical Knowledge: Undestanding Evidence-Based Medicine as a Socio-medical PhenomenonIn Nikolaos Sitaras (ed.), Evidence-Based Medicine: Closer to Patients or Scientists?, Intech Open Science. 2012.Because few would object to evidence-based medicine’s (EBM) principal task of basing medical decisionmaking on the most judicious and up-to-date evidence, the debate over this prolific movement may seem puzzling. Who, one may ask, could be against evidence (Carr-Hill, 2006)? Yet this question belies the sophistication of the evidence-based movement. This chapter presents the evidence-based approach as a socio-medical phenomenon and seeks to explain and negotiate the points of disagreement betwee…Read more
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62Evidence-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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6515On 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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509Clinical 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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