IASPM 2013 - Sciencesconf.org

Session 5 - How does medicine combine different types of evidence and different types of explanations?

Room 1 - Centre Panthéon

Part 1

› Science, Argument and Clinical Trials - Jonathan Fuller, University of Toronto 09:00-09:40 (40min)

› Radical transformation of Chine traditional medicine in Japan – Epistemology in East-‐Asian traditional medicine - Hajime Fujimori, Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques 09:40-10:20 (40min)

Coffee break

Session 5 - How does medicine combine different types of evidence and different types of explanations?

Room 1 - Centre Panthéon

Part 2

› The Myth of Placebo Additivity: Taming the Efficacy Paradox in Randomized Controlled Trials - Marco Annoni, University of Milan, Department of Health Sciences, European School of Molecular Medicine, European Institute of Oncology 10:40-11:20 (40min)

› The Status of Mechanistic Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine - Jennifer Bulcock, Rice University 11:20-12:00 (40min)

Lunch

Session 5 - How does medicine combine different types of evidence and different types of explanations?

Room 1 - Centre Panthéon

Part 3

› Abstracting and Abstractions in the Medical Sciences - Lara Keuck, Institut für Philosophie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 14:00-14:40 (40min)

› Mechanistic and topological explanations in medicine : the case of network medicine - Marie Darrason, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 14:40-15:20 (40min)

› Dynamical models: a type of explanation in neuroscience and medicine - Lauren Ross, University of Pittsburgh 15:20-16:00 (40min)

Coffee break