Blog post 5: The better explanation “There is always a clue” Gill Grissom Jan Willem, with whom I have been debating various science topics for over more than a decade, introduced me to Occam’s Razor. The razor states that the better explanation is not complexed beyond necessity(Tatham 1987). In philosophy the razor is usually interpreted……
Author: Marcus Goevaers
Post 1: Why is medicine the way it is? 1/2 (trash)
Why is Medicine the way it is? Part 1/2 After the first episode of this blog you will understand why you feel your medical practitioner can only explain so little while being confident the proposed treatment is absolutely best for you. As a science medicine is quite interested in how the human body functions and……
Post 4: The medical universe: Reality, atoms and symptoms
“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real” Erwin Schrödinger During medical training I felt (western) medicine was more ‘real’ than traditional forms of medicine. I’ll try to clarify this idea by comparing ‘western medicine’ to more traditional forms of medicine. It is, without having substantial knowledge about the……
Post 3: Centuries old ideas shaped medicine
In this article I’ll try to link XVIIe and XVIIIe century enlightenment ideas to how modern medicine is organized and operates. It will be about reductionism, evidence of the senses, different views on what science and knowledge are, separation of mind and body. In prior posts has been shown the vital importance in medicine of……
Post 2: Why is Medicine the way it is? 2/2
Part 1 of this topic was about medicine going beyond the borders of what is known by adopting the saying ‘One cause, one disease’. Now the question remains why medicine seems built around this odd and ambiguous saying while avoiding taking a stance on how the term ‘one’ in this saying should be conceived: identical,……
Post 1: Why is medicine the way it is? 1/2
After the first episode of this blog you will understand why you feel your medical practitioner can only explain so little while being confident the proposed treatment is absolutely best for you. As a science medicine is quite interested in how the human body functions and how diseases come about itself. But before anything else……