Medical Progress: Science Versus Practice.
In recent years, notable figures within the medical community have expressed concerns about the rate of medical progress, suggesting that the rapid advances of medicine's 'golden age' are now giving way to an 'age of disappointment'. While these pessimistic pronouncements about medical progress must...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 1445 - 1469 |
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