Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine: Fallibility and Responsibility in Clinical Science
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: There can be few better illustrations of why the term ‘evidence-based medicine’ is misleading than the title of Kenneth W Goodman's (no relation) thought-provoking book. The question has been asked many times, but what other sort of medicine is there? Medicine that is intentionally divorced from evidence is unworthy even of ethical consideration. It is the subtitle of the book that is the author's real subject—fallibility and responsibility in clinical science—though even that is wrongly phrased. Had the title been ‘The Ethics of Uncertainty in Clinical Medicine’, I would have started reading with less prejudice.
Author: N. W Goodman
Institutions: University of Miami, Southmead Hospital
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2139663068