Popowicz, Dylan Mirek (2021) "Doctor Knows Best": On the Epistemic Authority of the Medical Practitioner. Philosophy of Medicine, 2 (2). pp. 1-23. ISSN 2692-3963
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Abstract
We often consider medical practitioners to be epistemic authorities: “Doctor knows best,” as the saying goes. The place of expert judgment in evidence-based medicine hierarchies, and the crucial role of patient preferences and values in medical decision-making, however, pose problems for making sense of such authority. I argue that there is an account of such medical epistemic authority that does justice to the complexities of the doctor–patient relationship, while maintaining that medical practitioners hold an epistemically privileged position. Such a view can better inform medical practice by clearly illuminating the distinct roles of patients and doctors in decision-making processes.
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| Keywords: | Epistemic authority Medical authority Expertise Doctor-patient relationship | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Professor Alex Broadbent | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2022 00:43 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2022 00:43 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21168 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Medicine | ||||||
| Publisher: | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/49 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.5195/pom.2021.49 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine | ||||||
| Date: | 17 December 2021 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-23 | ||||||
| Volume: | 2 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2692-3963 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21168 |
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