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7Diagnosis: What Is the Structure of Its Reasoning?Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 67 (1): 88-95. 2024.ABSTRACT:How does the diagnosis process work? This essay traces the philosophical underpinnings of diagnosis from Hume through Kant, Peirce, and Popper, analyzing how pathologists amalgamate sensibility, intuition, and imagination to form new hypotheses that can be tested by evidence and experience.
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28The Logic of Medical Diagnosis: Generating and Selecting HypothesesTopoi 38 (2): 437-446. 2019.Clinical diagnostic medicine is an experimental science based on observation, hypothesis making, and testing. It is an use dynamic process that involves observation and summary, diagnostic conjectures, testing, review, observation and summary, new or revised conjectures, i.e. it is an iterative process. It can then be said that diagnostic hypotheses are also ‘observation-laden’. My aim is to enlarge on the strategies of medical diagnosis as these are meshed in training and clinical experience—th…Read more
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50Taking Procrustes' Axe to Professor Fisher's responseJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17 (5): 1009-1010. 2011.Homeopathic medications are used by millions, and hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on these remedies in the USA alone. In the UK, the NHS covers homeopathic treatments. Nonetheless, homeopathy is held in considerable disrepute by much of the medical and scientific community.Many proponents of homeopathy are well aware of these criticisms but remain unimpressed. The differences of opinion run deep, and the debate seems deadlocked. We aim to shed some light on this situation. We briefly r…Read more
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1591Evidence and simplicity: why we should reject homeopathyJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2): 276-281. 2010.Homeopathic medications are used by millions, and hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on these remedies in the USA alone. In the UK, the NHS covers homeopathic treatments. Nonetheless, homeopathy is held in considerable disrepute by much of the medical and scientific community.Many proponents of homeopathy are well aware of these criticisms but remain unimpressed. The differences of opinion run deep, and the debate seems deadlocked. We aim to shed some light on this situation. We brie…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
General Philosophy of Science |