No exit? Intellectual integrity under the regime of 'evidence' and 'best-practices'

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 512-516

  Murray, Stuart J ^a   Holmes, Dave ^b   Perron, Amélie ^b   Rail, Geneviève ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Best practices; Critique; Ethics; Evidence based medicine (EBM); Foucault; Power

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ETHICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SCIENCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; METHODOLOGY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REVIEW; THEORY;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ETHICS, CLINICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 34249283183     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2007.00851.x     Document Type: Review

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