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. 2018 May 9;43(3):325-341.
doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhy002.

Intellectualizing Medicine: A Reply to Commentaries on "Prediction, Understanding, and Medicine"

Alex Broadbent  1
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Intellectualizing Medicine: A Reply to Commentaries on "Prediction, Understanding, and Medicine"

Alex Broadbent. J Med Philos. .

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.

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