BookO.S. Miettinen.
Summary: Scientific medicine in Miettinen's conception of it is very different from the two ideas about it that came to eminence in the 20th century. To him, medicine is scientific to the extent that it has a rational theoretical framework and a knowledge-base from medical science. He delineates the nature of that theoretical framework and of the research to develop the requisite knowledge for application in such a framework. The knowledge ultimately needed is about diagnostic, etiognostic, and prognostic probabilities, and it necessarily is to be codified in the form of probability functions, embedded in practice-guiding expert systems.
Contents:
The daunting needs for knowledge
The necessary forms of the knowledge
The knowledge according to its source
Needed innovations of the knowledge culture
Original research for scientific diagnosis
Original research for scientific etiognosis
Original research for scientific prognosis
Derivative research for scientific gnosis
From gnostic research to gnostic knowledge.