• 1. School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, P.R.China;
  • 2. Institute for Research and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Baptist University, Shenzhen, 518057, P.R.China;
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education, Dongzhimen Hospital Affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100700, P.R.China;
  • 4. Chinese Centre of Evidence-based Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
  • 5. Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, P.R.China;
SHANG Hongcai, Email: shanghongcai@foxmail.com; WANG Yongyan, Email: wangyongyan1938@163.com
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Scientism and humanism are two main views on the development of medicine, which run through both theory and practice. Under the guidance of the modern medical concept of " bio-psycho-social”, the views of scientism and humanism on medicine have reached an unprecedented level of development and integration, which jointly determine the connotations and demands of current medicine. As one of the current mainstream medical models, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has played an important role in the management of current medical theories and practices. Meanwhile, EBM has also encompassed views of scientism and humanism in its own development and has successfully shaped the knowledge and methodological system. EBM will continue to gain insight into the characteristics of views of scientism and humanism in the future of medicine to improve itself and should pay more attention to the development of humanism view. As an important branch discipline of EBM, evidence-based Chinese medicine may become a model of the perfect combination of scientism view and humanism view.

Citation: ZHAO Chen, TIAN Guihua, WANG Yanping, LI Youping, BIAN Zhaoxiang, SHANG Hongcai, WANG Yongyan. The development of evidence-based medicine covering view of scientism and humanism: indicating the future prospect of evidence-based traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019, 19(2): 232-237. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201810038 Copy

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