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Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

From art to science: a new epistemological status for medicine? On expectations regarding personalized medicine

  • 01-12-2018
  • Scientific Contribution
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Author
Urban Wiesing
Published in
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | Issue 4/2018

Abstract

Personalized medicine plays an important role in the development of current medicine. Among the numerous statements regarding the future of personalized medicine, some can be found that accord medicine a new scientific status. Medicine will be transformed from an art to a science due to personalized medicine. This prognosis is supported by references to models of historical developments. The article examines what is meant by this prognosis, what consequences it entails, and how feasible it is. It refers to the long tradition of epistemological thinking in medicine and the use of historical models for the development of medicine. The possible answers to the question “art or science” are systematized with respect to the core question about the relationship between knowledge and action. The prediction for medicine to develop from an ‘empirical healing art’ to a ‘rational, molecular science’ is nonsensical from an epistemological point of view. The historical models employed to substantiate the development of personalized medicine are questionable.
Title
From art to science: a new epistemological status for medicine? On expectations regarding personalized medicine
Author
Urban Wiesing
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1386-7423
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8633
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-017-9820-z
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