A Hempelian explanatory shift in neuropathology: a study in the history and logic of medicine.

نویسنده

  • M S Pollanen
چکیده

Mechanistic analysis of infarction along the boundary zones between the major arterial territories (watersheds) in the brain is herein described as an example of a scientific explanatory shift. The two explanations for the pathogenesis of watershed infarciion were both logically deduced from radicallv different emvirical laws of fluid mechanics. The first exvlanation becamhthe orthodox dr received view only until incompleteness neiessitated the development of an alternative and autonomous explanation which accounted for the empirical phenomenon that the orthodox explanation could not logically infer. Since this explanatory shift emerged to maintain completeness, and used empirical laws (Bernoulli's law and the Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect) as antecedents for the logical deduction of consequents which were empirically testable by experiment, it is suggested that the explanatory shift was of the Hempelian-type. Resume. L'analyse mecaniste de l'infarctus qui se produit le long des zones fontieres entre les territoires arteriels les plus importants dans le cerveau est decrite ici comme un exemple de changement dans le mode &explication scientifique. Les deux explications pour la pathogenhe de ce type d'infarctus etaient toutes deux logiquement deduites de lois empiriques sur les fluides mecaniques radicalement diffkrentes. La premiere explication demeura la conception orthodoxe ou acceptee jusqu'8 ce que son incompletude ait necessite le developpement d'une explication alternative et autonome qui permettait de rendre compte du phenomene empirique que l'explication orthodoxe ne pouvait pas impliquer logiquement. Comme ce changement dans le mode d'explication a et6 produit pour maintenir la completude et qu'il utilisait des lois empiriques (La loi de Bernoulli et l'effet de Fahraeus-Lindqvist) comme antecedents pour la deduction logique de condquences qui etaient empiriquement verifiables par I'experimentation, il est suggere que ce changement a et6 du type hempelien. Michael S. Pollanen, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth Street, EC4-316, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4. CBMHIBCHM / Volume 8: 1991 1 p. 65-76

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la medecine

دوره 8 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1991