Toward scientific medicine [electronic resource] / O.S. Miettinen.

Toward scientific medicine [electronic resource] / O.S. Miettinen.

9783319016719 electronic book
3319016717 electronic book
9783319016702

Cham : Springer, 2014.

English

1 online resource (xvii, 183 pages)

10.1007/978-3-319-01671-9 doi

R723 .M54 2014

610.1

Scientific medicine in Miettinen's conception of it is very different from the two ideas about it that came to eminence in the 20th century. To him, medicine is scientific to the extent that it has a rational theoretical framework and a knowledge-base from medical science. He delineates the nature of that theoretical framework and of the research to develop the requisite knowledge for application in such a framework. The knowledge ultimately needed is about diagnostic, etiognostic, and prognostic probabilities, and it necessarily is to be codified in the form of probability functions, embedded in practice-guiding expert systems.

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