Schulte Marie-Caroline. Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged?

J.B. Metzler, 2020. — 153 p. — ISBN 978-3-476-05702-0.This book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, Marie-Caroline Schulte discusses the importance of evi-dence in medical research and practice with a focus on the ethical and methodological prob-lems of EBM. The claims that EBM can herald a new theory of epistemology and a Kuhnian paradigm will be refuted. The solution is to describe EBM as a necessary development in medicine to deal with the increasing amount of evidence and medical data without loosing the single patient out of sight.The methodology of evidence-based research.
Informed Consent and shared decision making in EBM
Knowledge does not equal evidence — what to do with what we have evidence for?
Homeopathy — a case in point why EBM is so important — or, “the plural of anecdote is not data.”