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A framework for understanding medical epistemologies.

George Khushf¹

¹*Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. khushf@sc.edu.

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

|September 17, 2013

Summary

Medical epistemology examines how healthcare professionals gain and use knowledge through epistemic practices. This study proposes a new framework viewing epistemology as a practice aimed at mitigating errors in knowledge development and application.

Keywords:

clinical reasoning epistemology error evidence-based medicine

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Published on: June 13, 2025

Area of Science:

Medical epistemology
Philosophy of science
Social sciences of medicine

Background:

Understanding how clinicians and scientists acquire and utilize knowledge is crucial in healthcare.
Epistemic practices, encompassing knowledge production and use, are studied across various disciplines.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a unifying framework for diverse contributions to medical epistemology.
To analyze existing frameworks and their limitations in situating medical knowledge production and use.

Main Methods:

Survey of existing literature in medical epistemology, philosophy of science, and social sciences of medicine.
Critical analysis of three proposed frameworks for medical epistemology.
Development of a novel fourth framework for medical epistemology.

Main Results:

Identified diverse knowledge claims with distinct uses and justification logics.
Highlighted difficulties in establishing a comprehensive framework for medical epistemology.
Proposed a new framework conceptualizing epistemology as a practice for error mitigation.

Conclusions:

A unified framework is needed to integrate diverse perspectives on medical epistemology.
The proposed fourth framework views epistemology as a practice that advances knowledge by addressing errors.
This approach parallels medicine's advancement of health by mitigating disease.