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A particularly illustrious professor of mine in medical school (in the 1950s) subsequently remarked to me, privately, that in medical academia “nothing is new, nothing is true, and nothing really matters.” As a counterpoint of sorts to this, I now say that the propositions in this book are largely new to medical academics, and that the respective truths do matter (cf. Preface). But it remains to the reader to weigh and consider to what extent (s)he can accept those propositions as representing truths (in the theory of medicine), and to what extent (s)he can agree that those truths, whatever they may be, really matter.
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Miettinen, O.S. (2015). The Meaning of It All. In: Medicine as a Scholarly Field: An Introduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19012-9_9
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