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The Popperian Podcast #25 – Donald Gillies – ‘The Philosophy of Medical Discovery’

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The Limitations of the Cuny Understanding in Medicine

Kuhn looked at astronomy and chemistry in much heavier detail than other things. When you look at some of these things and physics, when you look at things like the Copernican revolution or the Einstein revolution, they seem much more clear-cut. In medicine, the goal was a much more applied science or a much more practical science about curing disease and preventing disease. So is it harder to see the revolutions in medicine or are they less clear-cut or in any way like this?

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