Jukola Saana
Bielefeld University, Department of philosophy, Postfach 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany; University of Johannesburg, Philosophy department, B-ring 6, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa.
Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2017 Apr;62:35-41. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2017.02.001. Epub 2017 Feb 8.
By using Stegenga's article Is meta-analysis the platinum standard of evidence as a case study, this paper shows how different notions of objectivity can affect discussions concerning medical research. I argue that the ideal of objectivity that underlies Stegenga's article is both unattainable in practice and insufficient and unnecessary in principle to capture some of the ways in which biases may enter medical knowledge production.
通过将斯特根加的文章《元分析是证据的黄金标准吗?》作为案例研究,本文展示了不同的客观性概念如何影响有关医学研究的讨论。我认为,斯特根加文章所依据的客观性理想在实践中既无法实现,在原则上也不足以且无必要捕捉偏差可能进入医学知识生产的一些方式。