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We must always keep in mind that medicine is not a natural science, either pure or applied. Methods of science are used all the time in combating disease, but medicine itself belongs much more to the realm of the social sciences because the goal is social. Medicine, by promoting health and preventing illness, endeavors to keep individuals adjusted to their environment as useful and contented members of society. Or by restoring health and rehabilitating the former patient, it endeavors to readjust individuals to their environment. — Henry Sigerist (cited in Clark 1967: 1).
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Byerly, E.L., Molgaard, C.A. (1982). Social Institutions and Disease Transmission. In: Chrisman, N.J., Maretzki, T.W. (eds) Clinically Applied Anthropology. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9180-0_15
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