Towards a new Philosophy of Medicine
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https://doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2026.271.12Keywords:
philosophy of Medicine, scientific knowledge (epistemē), professional skills (technē), objective values (ethikē).Abstract
In this paper, I argue that Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Patient Centred Medicine (PCM) are normally seen as incompatible, but if we avoid the philosophical problems of both sides (e.g., EBM’s reductionism and PCM’s inflationism), they can then be regarded as complementary. After scrutinizing the main components of EBM and PCM, I proposed a new philosophy of medicine capable of showing that medicine is a tridimensional social practice composed of scientific knowledge (epistemē), professional skills (technē) and objective values (ethikē). I call this approach “Integral Philosophy of Medicine” (IPMed), and I will here sort out some of its tenets.
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