Uncertainty and explanation in medicine and the health sciences
Auteur :
Dammann, Olaf
Éditeur :
Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN :
9783031822704
Date de publication :
28 mars 2025
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
Olaf Dammann explores recent accounts of medicine as ineffective and suggests that the impression that medicine does not achieve its goal is, at least in part, due to the aleatoric (natural) uncertainty of biomedical processes and the subsequent epistemic (cognitive) uncertainty of those who desire solid information about such processes.