University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Innovations in Reasoning About Health: The Case of the Randomized Controlled Trial [ISSA 2018 Presentation]

Schneider, Jodi; Jackson, Sally

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/100341

Description

Title
Innovations in Reasoning About Health: The Case of the Randomized Controlled Trial [ISSA 2018 Presentation]
Author(s)
  • Schneider, Jodi
  • Jackson, Sally
Issue Date
2018-07-05
Keyword(s)
  • Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Randomized Clinical Trials
  • argumentation
  • field dependence
  • warranting devices
  • medical reasoning
  • history of medicine
  • warrants in argumentation
Abstract
"Field-dependence in argumentation comes about through forms of inference invented by specialized fields. In recent work we introduced the concept of a ""warranting device"": (1) an inference license (2) invented for a specialized argumentative purpose and (3) backed by institutional, procedural, and material assurances of the dependability of conclusions generated by the device. Once established, fields employ such devices across many situations without further defense, even as the devices develop in response to newly-noticed problems. Many new warranting devices have appeared over the past century to solve problems in reasoning about health and medicine, replacing and obsolescing earlier forms of medical reasoning. One such device is the Randomized Controlled Trial. This case study traces its historical evolution and discusses some current movements toward competing device types."
Type of Resource
other
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/100341

Owning Collections

Illinois Research and Scholarship (Open Collection) PRIMARY
This is the default collection for all research and scholarship developed by faculty, staff, or students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign