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01-12-2013 | Editorial

Evidence-based or evidence-biased medicine?

Welcome to a new associate editor

Author: Lodovico Balducci

Published in: Journal of Medicine and the Person | Issue 3/2013

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Perhaps the first example of “evidence-biased medicine” [1] was described by Alessandro Manzoni in his novel “I Promessi Sposi” (The Betrothed). In the 1600s, when the plague decimated the city of Milan, Don Ferrante was a learned man. Based on the scientific evidence of the time, supported by Aristotle’s philosophy, he concluded that the plague could not possibly exist. The plague was neither a substance nor an accident, so it could not be classified, and consequently it could not possibly exist. Don Ferrante caught the plague and died while denying the very cause of his death. …

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Title: Evidence-based or evidence-biased medicine?
Welcome to a new associate editor
Author: Lodovico Balducci
Publication date: 01-12-2013
Publisher: Springer Milan
Published in: Journal of Medicine and the Person / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 2035-9411
Electronic ISSN: 2036-3877
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12682-013-0161-2

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