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(2012) Handbook of analytic philosophy of medicine, Dordrecht, Springer.

Science, medicine, and rationality

Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh

pp. 789-806

In preceding chapters, we tacitly presumed that medicine is a science, adding in the last chapter the view that it is (i) a practical science and (ii) in transition to an engineering science. What was left out until now is to determine what it means to say that medicine is a science. What is science? In order for judgments (i) and (ii) above to be testable, this basic question requires some clarity.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2260-6_22

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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (2012). Science, medicine, and rationality, in Handbook of analytic philosophy of medicine, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 789-806.

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