ERICA ZARKOVICH and R.E.G. UPSHUR THE VIRTUES OF EVIDENCE
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Evidence-based medicine has been defined as the conscientious and judicious use of current best evidence in making clinical decisions. This paper will attempt to explicate the terms “conscientious” and “judicious” within the evidence-based medicine definition. It will be argued that “conscientious” and “judicious” represent virtue terms derived from virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. The identification of explicit virtue components in the definition and therefore conception of evidence-based medicine presents an important starting point in the connection between virtue theories and medicine itself. In addition, a unification of virtue theories and evidence-based medicine will illustrate the need for future research in order to combine the fields of virtue-based approaches and
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