Causal explanatory pluralism and medically unexplained physical symptoms

Autor:	Ashley Graham Kennedy, Michael Cournoyea
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Pluralism (political theory) business.industry Medically unexplained physical symptoms Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Medicine Medical diagnosis business Psychiatry
Zdroj:	Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 20:928-933
ISSN:	1356-1294
DOI:	10.1111/jep.12238
Popis:	In this paper, we propose a methodology for investigating medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPSs). These symptoms are common in both primary and specialist medical practices, but are poorly understood. Currently, MUPSs are diagnosed via non-explanatory labels. However, we show that explanatory diagnoses are preferable to non-explanatory syndromic diagnoses because they bring both epistemic and therapeutic benefits to patients and their providers. Thus, we advocate a methodology of causal explanatory pluralism in the diagnostic workup and clinical management of MUPSs.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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