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The Architecture of Medical Knowledge

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Fragmentary medical-epistemological thoughts are put forward in medical journals and books every day. But there is as yet no medical epistemology as an established area of inquiry. As a result, no methodology is available to instruct us about how to conduct medical epistemology. To establish a field of medical epistemology with well-identified problems, issues, and a specific methodology, requires an answer to the question: What is medical epistemology and what is it needed for?

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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (2012). The Architecture of Medical Knowledge. In: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine(), vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2260-6_9

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