How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have
reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last forty years …

Head hits cause brain damage-but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes?
Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development-does that …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) makes use of explicit procedures for grading evidence for
causal claims. Normally, these procedures categorise evidence of correlation produced by …

It has recently been argued that successful evidence-based policy should rely on two kinds
of evidence: statistical and mechanistic. The former is held to be evidence that a policy …

Two approaches to evidential reasoning compete in the biomedical and social sciences: the
experimental and the pragmatist. Whereas experimentalism has received considerable …

In this paper we identify six theses that constitute core results of philosophical investigation
into the nature of mechanisms, and of the role that the search for and identification of …

Philosophy of medicine is a field that seeks to explore fundamental issues in theory,
research, and practice within the health sciences, particularly metaphysical and …

Evidence hierarchies are widely used to assess evidence in systematic reviews of medical
studies. I give several arguments against the use of evidence hierarchies. The problems with …

Professional practice guided by the best research evidence is a usually referred to as
evidence-based practice. The aim of the present paper is to describe five fundamental …

Even though the evidence‐based medicine (EBM) movement labels mechanisms a low
quality form of evidence, consideration of the mechanisms on which medicine relies, and the …