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02143aam a2200349 i 4500 001 FB9B89FC505611E99CDA2C4797128E48 003 SILO 005 20190327010156 008 170717t20182018enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017955745 020 $a 0198747047 020 $a 9780198747048 035 $a (OCoLC)993639793 040 $a NLM $b eng $e rda $c NLM $d CDX $d BDX $d ORE $d OCLCF $d VT2 $d YDX $d OCLCO $d AU@ $d OCLCA $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d IOB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 04 $a R723 $b .S767 2018 100 1 $a Stegenga, Jacob, $e author. 245 10 $a Medical nihilism / $c Jacob Stegenga. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xiv, 226 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and indexes. 520 $a "Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This book argues that medical nihilism is a compelling view of modern medicine. If we consider the frequency of failed medical interventions, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods in medicine, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions ought to be low."-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a 1. Introduction -- Part I. Concepts -- 2. Effectiveness of medical interventions -- 3. Effectiveness and medicalization -- 4. Magic bullets -- Part II. Methods -- 5. Down with the hierarchies -- 6. Malleability of meta-analysis -- 7. Assessing medical evidence -- 8. Measuring effectiveness -- 9. Hollow hunt for harms -- Part III. Evidence and values -- 10. Bias and fraud -- 11. Medical nihilism -- 12. Conclusion. 650 0 $a Medicine $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Nihilism (Philosophy) 650 0 $a Medicine $x Evaluation. $x Evaluation. 650 0 $a Medicalization. 941 $a 1 952 $l UUAX975 $d 20190327052013.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FB9B89FC505611E99CDA2C4797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search