It was the aim of this review to compare the survival and success rates of immediately
loaded dental implants with those of conventionally loaded dental implants, based on …

Participatory decision tools enable stakeholders to reconcile conflicting natural resources
management objectives. Fisheries targeting highly productive species can have profound …

How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have
reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last forty years …

This article describes the principles of evidence-based medicine and how these principles
may be implemented in osteopathic practice and applied to the use of muscle energy …

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA
and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the …

Since the emergence of the Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) movement, the nature and
role of evidence in medicine has been much debated. The formal classification of evidence …

Despite the simple name, biomedicine is not simply the area of overlap between biology and
medicine. It is a framework, a set of philosophical commitments, a global institution woven …

Evidence hierarchies are widely used to assess evidence in systematic reviews of medical
studies. I give several arguments against the use of evidence hierarchies. The problems with …

Because “evidence” is at issue in evidence-based medicine (EBM), the critical responses to
the movement have taken up themes from post-positivist philosophy of science to …

What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be explained scientifically? Is
disease a scientific concept, or do explanations of disease depend on values? What is" …