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[Medicine and archaeology: comparison of methods]
Abstract:
Medicine and archaeology are human sciences: their diagnostic claim consists of establishing the link between the singular case and the general model. Comparing and contrasting the two processes is not limited to a game of "similarities-differences". It makes possible a finer analysis of different methods of data collection, either with or without the help of instruments, and a comparison of different ways of handling and classifying symptoms observed and documentary evidence gathered. It shows that archaeology, in contrast to medicine (with physiology and health), has as a discipline, no real precisely defined reference. It is suggested that it is in the interest of medicine and archaeology to compare their own working methods...and their imperfections.
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