Critical Thinking: Understanding and Evaluating Dental Research

No clinical decision is better than the reading that underpins it, and that is precisely what Donald Maxwell Brunette sets out to teach. His 415 pages offer tools for dismantling an argument, for being suspicious of a study's design and for deciding whether a published result is of any real use at the chair. There is room for Simpson's paradox and other statistical traps, for abductive reasoning, for argument maps and for research carried out in real-world conditions. It is intended for students, teachers and clinicians alike, and reads in English.