Opposing Views Evidence Based Medicine

The article that initiated the critical controversy surrounding the claim that EBM represents an exclusionary "regime of power".

• Deconstructing the evidence-based discourse in health sciences: truth, power and fascism - The article that initiated the critical controversy surrounding the claim evidence based medicine that EBM represents an exclusionary "regime of power".[PDF]
• The case against 'the evidence': a different perspective on evidence-based medicine - A psychiatrist\\'s critique that over-emphasis on evidence-based medicine medicine oversimplifies the complex and interpersonal nature of clinical medicine care.
• The pragmatic randomised controlled trial - A critique of conventional randomized controlled trials methodology, evidence based medicine medicine and an attempt to incorporate more complex interventions evidence based medicine medicine via a new 'pragmatic RCT'.
• Evidence-Based Medicine in the Intensive Care Unit: A Debate - Pro and con viewpoints on the question of whether EBM erodes the doctor-patient relationship and adversely affects the artistic and creative aspects of medicine. From conference held March 18 - 21, 2003. [Requires registration.]
• A philosophical analysis of the evidence-based medicine debate - A review of criticisms of EBM as being evidence based medicine founded on a lack of clarity and precision evidence based medicine by EBM's own proponents.[PDF]
• False dichotomies: EBM, clinical freedom, and the art of medicine - A critical evaluation of the oft-cited criticism of evidence-based medicine as constraining clinical freedom and potentially compromising patient welfare. Published: 03/01/05. [Requires registration.]
• Does "Evidence-Based Medicine" Diminish the Physician's Role? - A roundtable discussion of whether EBM is "microfascism", medicine as recently opposing views charged by a former NIH director medicine and others. Published: 01/05/07. opposing views [Requires registration.]
• Why Evidence-Based Medicine Cannot Be Applied to Psychiatry - Argues that there is insufficient proof that the medicine EBM model medicine can be adapted to fit psychiatry. medicine (April 1, 2008).
• Is Evidence-Based Medicine Relevant to the Developing World? - Argues and discusses the reasons for the evidence based medicine opposing views limited relevance of systematic reviews to frontline health evidence based medicine opposing views care workers in developing countries.
• Criticisms of evidence-based medicine - Brief review of five major types of criticisms opposing views of EBM.[PDF]
• Evidence-based medicine: a commentary on common criticisms - Review of the most commonly leveled charges against, opposing views and medicine misperceptions about, evidence-based medicine, with proposed solutions opposing views to real medicine limitations.
• A categorization and analysis of the criticisms of Evidence-Based Medicine - An examination and assessment of a decade of evidence based medicine medicine criticisms of EBM.[PDF]

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