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Jeremy Howick | |
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Born | Jeremy Howick |
Nationality | Canadian and British |
Citizenship | Canadian and British |
Education | Dartmouth College London School of Economics University of Oxford |
Occupation(s) | Philosopher, Epidemiologist |
Years active | 2009–present |
Known for | Doctor You The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine |
Medical career | |
Profession | Philosopher, clinical epidemiologist, teacher |
Institutions | University of Leicester and University of Oxford |
Sub-specialties | evidence-based medicine, placebo and nocebo effects, empathy in medicine |
Website | www |
Jeremy Howick is a Canadian-born, British residing clinical epidemiologist and philosopher of science. [1]
He is a professor and director of University of Leicester's Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare. [2]
He researches evidence-based medicine, clinical empathy and the philosophy of medicine, including the use of placebos in clinical practice and clinical trials. [3]
In 2016, he received the Dawkins & Strutt grant from the British Medical Association to study pain treatment. [4] He is a member of the Sigma Xi research honours society. [5]
Howick, a native of Montreal, Canada, is a graduate of Westmount High School. [6] He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Engineering from the Dartmouth College, and graduate degrees from The London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. [7] His PhD in Philosophy of medicine at the London School of Economics was conducted under the supervision of Nancy Cartwright and John Worrall, with a thesis entitled Philosophical essentials in evidence-based medicine: Evaluating the epistemological role of double blinding and placebo controls, published in 2008. [8] He is the Director of the Oxford Empathy Programme [9] at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
As a freshman at Dartmouth College, Howick learned to row. He subsequently competed in internationals for Canada at the 1994 World Championships, and won a silver medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. [10] He also competed in The Boat Race 1996 representing Oxford. [11]
Howick has worked at the University of Oxford, including at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine since 2007. Together with Muir Gray, he founded the Oxford Empathy Programme, [9] and the Oxford Philosophy and Medicine Network. [12] His main post is at the University of Leicester where he is the director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare. [13]
Howick designed a trial of placebo treatments for back pain for a BBC Horizon documentary. [14]
Howick's research combines Philosophy of medicine with medical research (especially Evidence-based medicine. [15] Howick's book, The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine [16] is a critical defense of the Evidence-based medicine Hierarchy of evidence.