Philosophical Background of Evidence-Based Medicine

Through the whole history of medicine, there runs a long struggle between two principal tendencies-empiricism and rationalism. The empirical trend lays its emphasis on "experience" for the cure of the sick. The rationalistic trend lays its main emphasis on "mechanism" for the cau...

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Main Author: KWON Sang-Ok
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society for the History of Medicine 2004-12-01
Series:Uisahak
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Online Access:http://medhist.kams.or.kr/2004/335.pdf