title: [Epistemology in cardiology].
abstract: The probabilistic character of several scientific laws, is emphasized. Some considerations are formulated about epistemology: the critical study of the principles, hypotheses and results of sciences. The evolution of medical epistemology and its implications in the field of cardiology is also described from the hippocratic treatises to the present. In former works the oldest use of the word hypothesis with the sense of supposition, is found. Finally remains to be established the relationship between the individual and general field i.e. between a patient, the isolated object of study, and the disease as an abstraction of the human mind.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Electrocardiografía y Vectocardiografía del Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, México.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Micheli
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical
vernacular_title: La epistemología en cardiología.