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The Primacy of Practice: Medicine and Postmodernism

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Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics

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  1. The Center for Multiethnic & Transnational Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Stephen Toulmin

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Toulmin, S. (1997). The Primacy of Practice: Medicine and Postmodernism. In: Carson, R.A., Burns, C.R. (eds) Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48133-2_3

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