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Medicine as unsuccessful inquiry

Alex Broadbent: Philosophy of medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, xiii+274pp, £19.99 PB

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Gillies, D. Medicine as unsuccessful inquiry. Metascience 29, 113–116 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00463-5

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