Reflux, revolution, and the role of forgotten research...
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:37 am
http://www.uwomeds.com/uwomj/v79n2/weiss.pdf
Reflux, revolution, and the role of forgotten research in medical paradigms
Edward S. Weiss (Meds 2012) Faculty reviewer: Dr. Paul Potter, Department of History of Medicine, UWO
Reflux, revolution, and the role of forgotten research in medical paradigms
Edward S. Weiss (Meds 2012) Faculty reviewer: Dr. Paul Potter, Department of History of Medicine, UWO
A new theory is put forward that accounts not only for the previously established results, but also for the conflicting data that troubled the dominant paradigm, and while the new approach may not answer every remaining question, it does provide a direction for further research to follow.
What this paradigm shift serves to highlight is the role of forgotten research, the undercurrent of data supporting alternate etiological factors that were never incorporated into the dominant paradigm.