Many-models medicine: Diversity as the best medicine

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 974-978

  Nunn, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

agent based simulation; evidence based medicine; expertise; medical epistemology; models of medicine; unification of science

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; COMPLEXITY MEDICINE; EPISTEMOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICINE; NARRATIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLINICAL MEDICINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84866706192     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2012.01903.x     Document Type: Article

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