Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged?

Download or read book Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged? written by Marie-Caroline Schulte and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, Marie-Caroline Schulte discusses the importance of evi-dence in medical research and practice with a focus on the ethical and methodological prob-lems of EBM. The claims that EBM can herald a new theory of epistemology and a Kuhnian paradigm will be refuted. The solution is to describe EBM as a necessary development in medicine to deal with the increasing amount of evidence and medical data without loosing the single patient out of sight. ​