Why medicine still needs a scientific foundation: restating the hypotheticodeductive model — part one

[摘要] MEDICAL science has been frequently characterised as providing an incomplete model of health and health care by critics from several quarters: complexity theory, postmodernism, and qualitative research. In contrast, alternative models are promoted as being more holistic or having better explanatory power of complex phenomena. In explaining the limitations of science, critics identify, in some degree or in combination, three purported characteristics of science: linearity, reductionism, and positivism.

[学科分类] 卫生学