Yearning for certainty and the critique of medicine as "science"

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-229

  Waymack, Mark H ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical reasoning; Clinical science; Hermeneutics; Narrative

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPISTEMOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT CARE; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINE; NARRATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; THINKING; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 67650260339     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-009-9107-3     Document Type: Review

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