The applicability, validity and usefulness of Karl Popper's 'Three Worlds' epistemology is examined, with specific reference to health-care information and knowledge. It is concluded that Popper's ideas provide a valuable way of understanding this domain and that, in particular, Popper's controversial 'World 3' of objective knowledge is a valid concept.
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Bawden, D. (2002). The three worlds of health information. Journal of Information Science, 28(1), 51–62. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555150202800106
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