Hopayian, Kevork ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-7242
(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
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 |
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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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Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2023 09:31 |
Last Modified: | 11 Aug 2023 10:31 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92839 |
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