Ideas and ideals in medicine: Fruits of reason or props of power?

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 107-116

  Miettinen, Olli S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical epidemiology; Evidence in medicine; Evidence based Medicine; Flexnerian medicine; Rational medicine; Scientific medicine

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PERIODICALS;

EID: 0033031576     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2753.1999.0196a.x     Document Type: Review

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