Empiricism
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Using a Socratic dialogue to tackle thorny issues of psychiatry.

30 Oct 2009 Medical students often experience significant cognitive dissonance as they attempt to understand psychiatry. After the security of lab values and medical tests that characterize much of medical practice, the ambiguity of seemingly subjectively ... Read more...

Shifting loyalties: reconsidering psychology's subject matter.

30 Aug 2009 Schwarz (IPBS: Integrative Psychology & Behavioral Science 43:3, 2009) cogently demonstrates that in conjunction with scientific conventionalism psychology has developed a rather deficient view of their subject matter: the human being. Psychology ... Read more...

Empiric antimicrobial therapy for pediatric skin and soft-tissue infections in the era of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

24 May 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to compare the clinical effectiveness of monotherapy with beta-lactams, clindamycin, or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole in the outpatient management of nondrained noncultured skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs), in a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Empiricism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Using a Socratic dialogue to tackle thorny issues of psychiatry. 30 Oct 2009
• Shifting loyalties: reconsidering psychology's subject matter. 30 Aug 2009
• How are we creating fluoroquinolone-resistant tuberculosis? 13 Aug 2009
• Empiric antimicrobial therapy for pediatric skin and soft-tissue infections in the era of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 24 May 2009
• Appropriate methodologies for empirical bioethics: it's all relative. 29 Apr 2009
• Empirical ethics as dialogical practice. 29 Apr 2009
• 'Nobody tosses a dwarf!' The relation between the empirical and the normative reexamined. 29 Apr 2009
• How experience confronts ethics. 29 Apr 2009
• Two concepts of empirical ethics. 29 Apr 2009
• Empirical ethics and its alleged meta-ethical fallacies. 29 Apr 2009
• Empirical ethics: who is the Don Quixote? 29 Apr 2009
• Investigations using clinical data registries: observational studies and risk adjustment. 17 Apr 2009
• An independent, empirical route to nonconceptual content. 31 Mar 2009
• A compendium of placebo-controlled trials of the risks/benefits of pharmacological treatments for insomnia: the empirical basis for U.S. clinical practice. 16 Jan 2009
• [Evidence-based drug therapy for male infertility] 29 Nov 2008
• Pediatric neck abscesses: changing organisms and empiric therapies. 29 Nov 2008
• Treatment of sinus headache as migraine: the diagnostic utility of triptans. 29 Nov 2008
• Practitioner as theorist: a reprise. 29 Sep 2008
• Dissonance induction and reduction: a possible principle and connectionist mechanism for why therapies are effective. Jul 2008
• Factors influencing the utilization of empirically supported treatments for eating disorders. 29 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Empiricism'

Definition: One of the principal schools of medical philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome. It developed in Alexandria between 270 and 220 B.C., the only one to have any success in reviving the essentials of the Hippocratic concept. The Empiricists declared that the search for ultimate causes of phenomena was vain, but they were active in endeavoring to discover immediate causes. The "tripod of the Empirics" was their own chance observations (experience), learning obtained from contemporaries and predecessors (experience of others), and, in the case of new diseases, the formation of conclusions from other diseases which they resembled (analogy). Empiricism enjoyed sporadic continuing popularity in later centuries up to the nineteenth. (From Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p186; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)

Descriptor UI: D019348

Alternative terms: Empiricism;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: K01.752.667.400;

History Note: 97