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

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Semelweis's Theory of Pure Porphiva

Semelweis was a revolutionary scientist in the cunean way. He and Snow marked the beginning of a revolution. But if you get into the kind of outlook of the doctors at the time who were brought up in a different paradigm of medicine, then looking at Semelweis, it seemed to them all wrong because it contradicted the paradigm.

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