Medical Nihilism
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780198747208
Copyright date: 2018
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209–224) and indexes.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Introduction; label: Part I
title: Concepts; label: 2
title: Effectiveness of Medical Interventions; label: 3
title: Effectiveness and Medicalization; label: 4
title: Magic Bullets; label: Part II
title: Methods; label: 5
title: Down with the Hierarchies; label: 6
title: Malleability of Meta-Analysis; label: 7
title: Assessing Medical Evidence; label: 8
title: Measuring Effectiveness; label: 9
title: Hollow Hunt for Harms; label: Part III
title: Evidence and Values; label: 10
title: Bias and Fraud; label: 11
title: Medical Nihilism; label: 12
title: Conclusion; label: Appendix 1
title: Bayes' Theorem and Screening; label: Appendix 2
title: Measurement Scales; label: Appendix 3
title: Epistemic Proof of Superiority of RD over RR; label: Appendix 4
title: Decision-Theoretic Proof of Superiority of RD over RR; label: Appendix 5
title: Modeling the Measurement of Effectiveness