Remaking the Case for History in Medical Education

Steere‐Williams, Jacob; Clark, Claire D.; López, Raúl Necochea

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“…Recognising that diagnosis is not a strictly empirical science but rather an integral component of the complex modern healthcare system could be achieved by reintegrating elements of history and philosophy of medicine into medical training. Not only can teaching history of medicine increase understanding of the structural factors influencing healthcare, it has the additional benefit of teaching critical thinking skills 15…”

Section: Other Educational Approaches To Address Overdiagnosismentioning

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“…only can teaching history of medicine increase understanding of the structural factors influencing healthcare, it has the additional benefit of teaching critical thinking skills. 15 Finally, we need to build confidence and leadership in future doctors. We need doctors to have confidence in the face of uncertainty, which is inherent to clinical practice.…”

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“…Not only can teaching history of medicine increase understanding of the structural factors influencing healthcare, it has the additional benefit of teaching critical thinking skills. 15 …”

Section: Other Educational Approaches To Address Overdiagnosismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Is There an Epistemic Role for History in Medicine? Thinking About Thyroid Cancer

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2024

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Starting in the late twentieth century there was considerable overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer, especially papillary thyroid carcinoma. Intriguingly, thyroid cancer researchers have suggested that knowledge of the history of thyroid cancer would have helped prevent this problem. Their intuition is that history has an epistemic role to play in justifying contemporary medical knowledge. This conflicts with an opposing intuition that history is irrelevant to the justification of contemporary knowledge. This chapter provides a Fleckian analysis of the history of thyroid cancer. It describes the development of a fluctuating network of active and passive elements of knowledge, out of which knowledge of cancer, malignancy, and papillary carcinoma emerge. What these objects are is shown to depend on this history. Whether physicians see the various forms of thyroid cancer as homogeneous kinds or as composite objects is shown to depend on this history. Therefore, the observations made of these objects also depend on this history. Justification of knowledge claims is a function of observations made of these objects, and the observations made of these objects is a function of their history. Therefore, justification of knowledge is a function of this history, which gives history an epistemic role to play in medical practice.

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Remaking the Case for History in Medical Education

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Is There an Epistemic Role for History in Medicine? Thinking About Thyroid Cancer

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