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Presented for Social Medicine Grand Rounds, DHASM, May 22, 2007.

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ABSTRACT:
In this paper, Dr. Brian Dolan looks at epistemological challenges to the tenets of Evidence Based Medicine by focusing on some of the ways that statistical data is presented as evidence. Dr. Dolan seeks more generally to explore the contours of quantification and digitization in biomedicine in search of uses of the graphic method and the status of producing pictures of numbers. One area implicated in the relationship between statistical representation and EBM is the way risk factors and decision making techniques are communicated in the physician-patient relationship, hence the question of the morality that underlies the art of evidence.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Brian Dolan, "The Art of Evidence and the Morality of Medical Decisions" (May 22, 2007). Center for Humanities and Health Sciences at UCSF. Paper Dolan_Graphs_2007.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/dahsm/chhs/Dolan_Graphs_2007