Why medicine still needs a scientific foundation: Restating the hypotheticodeductive model - Part one

Hopayian, Kevork (2004) Why medicine still needs a scientific foundation: Restating the hypotheticodeductive model - Part one. British Journal of General Practice, 54 (502). pp. 400-401. ISSN 0960-1643

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Abstract

• Medical science stands accused of providing an incomplete understanding of health because it is supposedly founded on linearity, reductionism, and positivism. • These criticisms misrepresent the scientific method. • The alternatives offered by complexity theory, postmodernism, and qualitative research risk falling into the traps that the scientific method avoids. • The hypotheticodeductive model of science provides both a coherent description of the growth of scientific knowledge and a prescription for the conduct of good science.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	family practice ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2714
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
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Date Deposited:	11 Aug 2023 09:31
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2026 13:51
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92839
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