Acupuncture Research and Practice: Some Philosophical Considerations
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Title
Acupuncture Research and Practice: Some Philosophical Considerations
Description
EJOM (2006), Parrott, Allen.
Abstract
The aim of this article is to set out some of the ways in which the basic philosophical assumptions about knowledge and reality that underpin mainstream scientific thinking, and therefore most current research, can be challenged, and to explore the relevance of such challenges to acupuncture research and practice. The author argues that randomised and double-blind clinical trials may be useful in certain contexts, but they no longer need be esteemed as the ‘gold standard’ to which all serious enquiry should aspire. For most healthcare research, a different ‘lens’ is desirable, for practical and ethical as well as for theoretical or more purely philosophical reasons.
Alternative Title
EJOM
Creator
Date
Date Created
2/26/2015
Language
English
Type
Journal Article
issn
1351-6647
issue
3
volume
5