Mechanisms, Individuals and Collective

Last week I joined a webinar:

 

https://www.biokoinos.org/events

BioKoinos Research Seminar

Saúl Pérez González & Elena Rocca - 

Evidence-based and patient-centred clinical practice. The bridging role of evidence of mechanism.

  

I have mapped some of the concepts to Hodges' model. A link to the paper is included below. The session was very helpful, especially with ongoing developments in genomics and personalised medicine.

 

INDIVIDUAL

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

patient-centred evidence safety of a certain intervention for a particular patient safety efficacy	individual - epidemiology - population patient-centred evidence safety of a certain intervention for a particular patient biology pathophysiological mechanism prediction ... confirming and disconfirming - depending on whether or not it supports that certain epidemiological results apply to the single patient.
evidence safety efficacy	evidence safety efficacy

Pérez-González, S., & Rocca, E. (2022). Evidence of Biological Mechanisms and Health Predictions: An Insight into Clinical Reasoning. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 65(1), 89-105.  

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/20364/1/Postprint%20Evidence%20of%20biological%20mechanisms%20and%20health%20predictions.pdf