Making Medical Knowledge

1. Introduction: Beyond the art and science of medicine 2. 'NIH's window to the health care community': the NIH Consensus Development Conference Program 3. From the NIH model to the Danish model: the medical consensus conference movement 4. Philosophical interlude: objectivity and democracy in consensus conferences 5. Evidence-based medicine as empiric medicine 6. The fallibility of evidence-based medicine 7. What is translational medicine? 8. On narrative medicine 9. A developing, untidy, methodological pluralism Concluding thoughts Bibliography Index