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Psychiatry: Evidence-Based but Still Value-Laden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, Department of Psychiatry, Rawnsley Building, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester MI3 9WL
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The directive that we should be ‘for evidence-based medicine’ has the same moral imperative as Queen Elizabeth's affirmation that she is ‘against sin’. It seems impossible to take an opposing view without abandoning reason or at least ethics. And yet a feeling of uneasiness, or at least caution, stands in the way of wholehearted endorsement – why?

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Evidence-Based Psychiatry
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 171 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 226
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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