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The question is raised whether it would be beneficial to establish a clinical praxiology for the sake of a multi-focused inquiry into the foundations of clinical pratice. Beginning with the concept of medical diagnosis, a framework is presented which makes it possible to view diagnosis as an element of a complex structure whose adequate analysis requires at least comparative diagnostic methodology and epistemology.
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This paper is the English translation of excerpts from the German article ‘Grundlagen-probleme einer Theorie der klinischen Praxis. Teil 1: Explikation des medizinischen Diagnosebegriffs’,Metamed 1, (1977) 76–102. I wish to thank Mrs. W. Röckener for her secretarial assistance.
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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. Foundations of clinical praxiology part I: The relativity of medical diagnosis. Metamedicine 2, 183–196 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00884422
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00884422