Philosophy of Medicine

New York, NY: Oup Usa (2018)
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Philosophy of Medicine provides a fresh and comprehensive treatment of the topic. It offers a novel theory of the nature of medicine, and proposes a new attitude to medicine, aimed at improving the quality of debates between medical traditions and facilitating medicine's decolonization.

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R723.B67 2019

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9780190612146   0190612142   113893142X   0190612134   0190493186   9780190612139   9780190612177
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