Binney, Nicholas (2023) Methods of Inference and Shaken Baby Syndrome. Philosophy of Medicine, 4 (1). pp. 1-33. ISSN 2692-3963
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Abstract
Exploring the early development of an area of medical literature can inform contemporary medical debates. Different methods of inference include deduction, induction, abduction, and inference to the best explanation. I argue that early shaken baby research is best understood as using abduction to tentatively suggest that infants with unexplained intracranial and ocular bleeding have been assaulted. However, this tentative conclusion was quickly interpreted, by some at least, as a general rule that infants with these pathological signs were certainly cases of abuse. Rather than focusing on inductive arguments, researchers today may be better off focusing on making a compelling inference to the best explanation.
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| Keywords: | Induction Abduction Abusive head trauma Non-accidental head injury Diagnostic criteria | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Professor Alex Broadbent | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2023 13:40 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 Jun 2023 13:40 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 22192 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Medicine | ||||||
| Publisher: | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/41 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.5195/pom.2023.41 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine | ||||||
| Date: | 10 May 2023 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-33 | ||||||
| Volume: | 4 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2692-3963 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22192 |
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