Reductionism in medical science and practice

Reductionism in Social Science

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Complexity, Reductionism, and Holism in Science and Philosophy of Science

There are concepts that belong to the basic terminology of science but which are not used in everyday scientific work – such as the concepts of natural law and causality. Such concepts touch on the epistemological foundations of science, and thus transcend individual disciplines and presuppose a particular interest, the interest in foundational questions of science, and presumably also special ...

Medical ethics and medical practice: a social science view.

This paper argues that two characteristics of social life impinge importantly upon medical attempts to maintain high ethical standards. The first is the tension between the role of ethics in protecting the patient and maintaining the solidarity of the profession. The second derives from the observation that the foundations of contemporary medical ethics were laid at a time of one-to-one doctor-...

Reflections on Formalism and Reductionism in Logic and Computer Science

Advancing medical science and practice in anesthesiology: Karolinska.

THIS year, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm celebrates its 200-yr anniversary as a medical school and medical university. Coincidently, it is 70 yr since anesthesia was introduced in Sweden as a medical profession. As in many other countries, our specialty rapidly played key roles in the development of modern health care and academic medicine in Sweden. The pioneer behind the introduction of ...