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

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

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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