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The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language

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I feel really embarrassed about this, but I have this sudden burning and pressing in the left side of my chest”, the patient Dorothy McNeil said.

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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (2015). The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language. In: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 119. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9579-1_1

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