None Too Solid: Medical Ignorance.

Kerwin, Ann

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Publication Date: 1993

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None Too Solid: Medical Ignorance.

Kerwin, Ann

Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, v15 n2 p166-85 Dec 1993

Examines the concept of medical ignorance. Highlights include awareness of fallibility; the increasing supply of information; philosophies of ignorance; a phenomenology of ignorance; special issues related to medical ignorance; and mapping ignorance, including known unknowns, unknown unknowns, errors, tacit knowing, taboos, and denials. (Contains 11 references.) (LRW)

Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Health Education, Medical Research, Philosophy, Scientific and Technical Information

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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