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Knowledge

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Medical practice aspires to be based on medical knowledge. This chapter starts by investigating why this is so, what the value of knowledge is. Explicit knowledge is factive: what is known must be true and truth is conducive to the success of medical interventions. But such knowledge has to be more than a matter of luck and hence depends on a pedigree—a justification or warrant. for explicit medical knowledge, science now dominates that pedigree. But medicine also depends on practical knowledge (knowledge-how), which does not reduce to explicit knowledge (knowledge-that), and whose pedigree is the development of a reliable skill. Forging a connection between practical and tacit knowledge, the chapter concludes with a discussion of how it is possible to teach and learn such knowledge.

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  1. Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, Lancashire, UK

    Tim Thornton PhD

  2. Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Center of Internal Medicine, Health Center Bitterfeld-Wolfen GmbH, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straße 2, 06749, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany

    Peter Lanzer MD

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Thornton, T., Lanzer, P. (2018). Knowledge. In: Lanzer, P. (eds) Textbook of Catheter-Based Cardiovascular Interventions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55994-0_1

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