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As a science and practice of intervention and control, medicine is concerned with cure and care, the promotion and protection of health, and the prevention of maladies and human suffering (see p. X).
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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (2015). The Patient. In: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 119. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9579-1_7
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