Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2007.
Review article
Beyond the Paradigm of Explanation In Contemporary Medicine. Alternative and/or complementary medicine as possible source of a medical »epistemological cut«
Karel Turza
Abstract
In contemporary, especially Western official medicine, the prevailing, biomedical model is based upon modern “rational trust” in science, in short, upon the principle: non est medicina sine scientia.
What underlies modern science is the idea of causality (in words of T. Kuhn and G.H. von Wright: the paradigm of explanation), and that forms the main aim of the entire scientific work: discovering more or less stable cause-effect relations. Such task, however, always implies proving. Scientific theories and/or scientific laws which are closest to the logical ideal that (they, i.e. theories/laws) are absolutely proved are, in that epistemological matrix, those that make possible reliable/trustworthy predictions.
In the work we do not offer a definite recipe for solving epistemological, theoretical and practical crisis of modern medicine, but an attempt to find one of many possible ways/options that might lead to it – with clear awareness of the fact that definite, ultimate, substantive truths simply do not exist any more.
Keywords
biomedical model; paradigm of explanation; alternative/complementary medicine; alternative paradigme
Hrčak ID:
15758
URI
Publication date:
2.4.2007.
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