Causal Relationships in Medicine: A Practical System for Critical Appraisal

by J. Mark Elwood

Book Overview

This book shows that in most controversial questions in medicine the essential argument concerns whether the available evidence supports a particular cause-and-effect relationship. Making this evaluation, however, requires a degree of critical thinking that is not emphasized in medical education. In redressing this imbalance, the author demonstrates that by defining the postulated causal relationship, the possible causal and non-causal explanations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192617036
• ISBN13: 9780192617033
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"