TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Brian
AU  - Crawford,Paul
AU  - Hicks,Carolyn
TI  - Evidence based research: dilemmas and debates in health care 
SN  - 0335211658
U1  - 362.1072 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Maidenhead
PB  - Open University Press
KW  - Evidence-based medicine
KW  - Primary health care
KW  - Research
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Introduction: theories of science and theories of society --; 2; Epistemology I: positivism - 'they don't build epistemologies like that any more' --; 3; Concepts and theories I: what is a concept in the health sciences? --; 4; Concepts and theories II: operationalism and its legacy --; 5; The philosophy of experimentation --; 6; Experiments in medicine and the health sciences --; 7; Epistemology II: interpretation and hermeneutics --; 8; Philosophies of description --; 9; The post-modernist challenge --; 10; Philosophy and research design in practice
ER  -