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Intellectualizing Medicine: A Reply to Commentaries on "Prediction, Understanding, and Medicine"
1African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
|May 11, 2018
Abstract:
This article is a reply to two critics of my "Prediction, Understanding, and Medicine," published elsewhere in this journal issue. In that essay, I argued that medicine is best understood not as essentially a curative enterprise, but rather as one essentially oriented towards prediction and understanding. Here, I defend this position from several criticisms made of it.