There’s going to be a symposium on Evidence in Action at the annual Philosophy of Science Association conference, PSA 2016, to be held in Atlanta, USA. The symposium will take place 9-11.45am on Friday 4th November.
Building EBM+ Workshop
On September 5th and 6th 2016, a number of our EBM+ consortium members and colleagues from far afield came together for our 2-day ‘Building EBM+ Workshop’, held at UCL on behalf of the STS department.
What philosophy does EBM need?
Thanks to David Norris for his comment (@davidcnorrismd) as I had indeed missed his review of the recent book Ending Medical Reversal by Vinayak Prasad and Adam Cifu. I now look forward to part 2 of his post as I’m curious to learn about his ideas in part 1 to “move clinical science beyond the Stone Age”.
Why mechanisms matter
I think that every academic has had the dispiriting experience of writing what they thought was a good paper, only to have great difficulty publishing it. This post is about one of these – which has been hanging about in my “do something with this, someday” file for four years or so.
Penguins and causality
Architect Berthold Lubetkin and engineers Ove Arup and Felix Samuely created the penguin pool at London Zoo, completed in 1934. It’s a great example of modernist architecture.
Miriam Solomon on Medical Epistemology
Miriam Solomon has recently published a book on Medical Epistemology (Making Medical Knowledge, Oxford University Press, pp. 261 + xvi). This gives a good critical exposition of trends in the last 40 or so years. There are three chapters on Consensus Conferences, two on Evidence-Based Medicine, one on Translational Medicine, and one on Narrative Medicine. Solomon devotes the last chapter of her book to her own position which she characterises as a ‘Developing, Untidy, Methodological Pluralism’, though, as she points out on p. 208, this has the unfortunate acronym: DUMP.