• J Eval Clin Pract · Apr 2023

    'Medical Corona Science': Philosophical and systemic issues: Re-thinking medicine? On the epistemology of Corona medicine.

    • Felix Tretter and James Marcum.
    • Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna, Austria.
    • J Eval Clin Pract. 2023 Apr 1; 29 (3): 405414405-414.

    Rationale, Aims, And ObjectivesThe disciplinary profile and the quality of production of knowledge on Corona pandemic is studied. This scientific field is called 'Medical Corona Science'.MethodsCriteria of analytical philosophy of science and science studies are systematically applied.ResultsIt is shown that mainly auxiliary medical disciplines such as virology and epidemiology but not clinical disciplines provide Corona knowledge. We see a laboratory-centered, technology- and data-driven science, largely ignoring clinical issues. Therefore we call these approaches "Medical Corona Science" (MCS). We see the need to adapt to features of a 'post-normal science', a 'mode 2 science' and of 'Integration and Implementation Science', especially as clinical knowledge must be integrated. There is also a severe lack of theoretical considerations that could help to frame the pandemic as a complex dynamic system.ConclusionsWe suggest a deeper meta-scientific discussion of the epistemic value of MCS and propose the application of tools from systems science.© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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