Epistemic Trust, Epistemic Responsibility, and Medical Practice.

Epistemic trust is an unacknowledged feature of medical knowledge. Claims of medical knowledge made by physicians, patients, and others require epistemic trust. And yet, it would be foolish to define all epistemic trust as epistemically responsible. Accordingly, I use a routine example in medical pr...

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Publicado en:Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 302 - 321
Autor principal: SCHWAB, ABRAHAM P.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Aug2008
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