Complementary/alternative medicine: engulfed by postmodernism, anti-science and regressive thinking

Complementary/alternative medicine: engulfed by postmodernism, anti-science and regressive thinking.

set of assumptions, use different theoretical explanations, embrace a different philosophy, pose different questions and use different language … than medicine'. 15 The new 'holistic paradigm' includes 'concepts of psychosomatism, consciousness and energy'. 16 According to some, the meaning of illness and health is neglected by conventional medicine to its peril: 'sometimes, illness is the pati...

Postmodernism — Science — Philosophy

The fundamental questions to be addressed are these: What is the impact of "postmodernism" on the relationship between philosophy and science? What are the possible consequences of the postmodernist whirlwind on the status of philosophy in contemporary culture? And, does postmodernism add new questions to the gnawing issue over the degree, if any, to which a philosopher is a scientist? It would...

Postmodernism and criminological thought : ‘ Whose science ? Whose knowledge ?

Foundations of "new" social science: institutional legitimacy from philosophy, complexity science, postmodernism, and agent-based modeling.

Since the death of positivism in the 1970s, philosophers have turned their attention to scientific realism, evolutionary epistemology, and the Semantic Conception of Theories. Building on these trends, Campbellian Realism allows social scientists to accept real-world phenomena as criterion variables against which theories may be tested without denying the reality of individual interpretation an...

Thinking and Reasoning in Medicine

Medical reasoning describes a form of qualitative inquiry that examines the cognitive (thought) processes involved in making medical decisions. Clinical reasoning, medical problem solving, diagnostic reasoning, and decision-making are all terms used in a growing body of literature that examines how clinicians make clinical decisions. Medical cognition refers to studies of cognitive processes, s...