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Philosophy and its role in medicine: Inaugurating a new section

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This section, then, has a wide potential. Searching for the sources of truth or fashioning the truth is, I have suggested, a social activity: one in which thinkers from various fields and from disparate points of view and cultures exchange and discuss various approaches in various points of view. Whether that potential is realized depends on you the writers and readers. I invite responses for all papers published in this section as, indeed, we do for any published in the Journal.

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  1. University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

    Erich H. Loewy (Professor of Medicine (Ethics)

  2. University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

    Erich H. Loewy (Professor of Medicine (Ethics)

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Loewy, E.H. Philosophy and its role in medicine: Inaugurating a new section. Theoretical Medicine 15, 201–205 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00994025

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