TY - JOUR AU - Marin, Francesca PY - 2019/06/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Placing Trust in Medicine by Dealing with Its Uncertainty JF - Teoria. Rivista di filosofia JA - TeoRiv VL - 39 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.4454/teoria.v39i1.58 UR - https://www.rivistateoria.eu/index.php/teoria/article/view/58 SP - 81-96 AB - <p>The paper does not merely address the crucial role of trust in medical practice and the ubiquitous presence of uncertainty in medicine, as tends to happen in scientific literature; rather, it goes further by showing that problematic issues arise when the trust-medicine dyad is recognized without the acknowledgment of the medicine-uncertainty dyad, or vice versa. Firstly, it is argued that the trust-medicine-uncertainty interdependency is necessary because there is a kind of irreducible uncertainty due to the epistemological status of medicine, whose presence guarantees well-placed trust in medicine. In this respect, examples of misplaced trust in medicine due to considering medicine as an absolutely certain scientific knowledge and misplaced distrust in medicine as a result of an antiscientific view of medical knowledge are discussed. Secondly, the need for a triple pattern is proved to be urgent because medical advances, rather than diminishing medical uncertainty, are contributing to its increase and even generating new kinds of uncertainties.</p> ER -