Navigating The Boundaries: The Challenge of Pseudoscience
Contemporary healthcare faces mounting pressure to balance evidence-based medical protocols with patient-centered care, cultural competence, and physician professional satisfaction. My "dialogical medical practice" framework applies theological models of creative engagement to this challenge, but its relationship to current concerns about medical pseudoscience requires careful examination.
To analyze how this framework for dialogical medical practice intersects with established criteria for distinguishing legitimate healthcare innovation from medical pseudoscience, identifying both strengths and areas requiring strategic clarification.
Critical analysis of the dialogical medical practice framework using established philosophical and medical criteria for evaluating pseudoscience, including Boudry's pragmatic-naturalistic approach to demarcation, the World Medical Association's Declaration on Pseudoscience, and Callaghan's analysis of medical denialism. Examination of theological foundations, epistemological commitments, and practical implications for medical education and clinical practice.