Abstract: Abstract We have so far concentrated on the complex ways in which the evidence-base of medicine is modified by judgement in clinical practice. Thus, patient anecdotes and patient consent or refusal of given treatments affect the options available in a clinical situation. Moreover, the doctor’s scientific attitude is modified by his ability to interpret and to have insights about the individual patient. But, as distinct from clinical practice, there is another domain of medicine with its own distinctive evidence-base and its own need for judgements of a different sort—this is the domain of public health medicine, formerly called ‘community medicine’.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-03-23
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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