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How Social Patterns Affect the Development of Science and Medicine

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The aim of this chapter is to explain what medicine is today, and to make assumptions about its future evolution. To draw this path, the author starts from historical definitions of medicine: a science that has as its object in the study of diseases, that studies the human body, or a discipline that considers various sciences and technologies to study human pathophysiology in order to maintain the state of health; given this background, he makes an analysis of the contemporary bonds related to this science, as the conditions of sustainability, aedonism and economicist vision.

The analysis of the change in the scientific paradigm leads to the research of a new scientific evidence that cannot be limited anymore to Evidence-Based Medicine. Rationality is the best strategy to introduce a revisited vision of pragmatic medicine.

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  1. “Tor Vergata” University, Rome, Italy

    Ivan Cavicchi

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  1. Day&Week Surgery Unit, Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda, Milano, Italy

    Dalila Patrizia Greco

  2. Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy

    Elio Borgonovi

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Cavicchi, I. (2019). How Social Patterns Affect the Development of Science and Medicine. In: Greco, D.P., Borgonovi, E. (eds) Abdominal Wall Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02426-0_20

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