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An Aspect of Epistemology in Medicine: General considerations in Medical Knowledge

Here are three articles from "Philosophy and Medicine" with my annotations in bullet points: 1. Thung, P.J. (1990). The Growth of Medical Knowledge: An Epistemological Exploration.           In: Ten Have, H.A.M.J., Kimsma, G.K., Spicker, S.F. (eds) The Growth of Medical           Knowledge. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht.           https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2025-5_6 An exposition of natural scientific knowledge and discovery and the status of medicine as natural science. Topics range from what kind of realism scientific knowledge has (Popper's evolutionary theory and Kuhn's structure of scientific revolution describing growth of science as a process wherein theory is matched to nature), the mathematical design of nature Heidegger uses to interpret Kant's mathesis universalis, to the case of medicine on whether it can be considered a natural science and anthropological perspectives o...
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