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2. The risk of self-referencing

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Antonio Del Puente, Vinicio Lombardi, Antonella Esposito, Gaetano Lombardi, Lorenzo Savignano, Raffaele Scarpa, DEL PUENTE, Antonio, Esposito, Antonella, Savignano, Lorenzo, Lombardi, Vinicio, Lombardi, Gaetano, and Scarpa, Raffaele

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Humanization of medicine, Scientific culture, Health Policy, Field (Bourdieu), sort, Self-referencing, Sociology, Set (psychology), Medical science, Quality of Life Research, Epistemology, Test (assessment)
Abstract

The medical field is becoming the sphere of a quite peculiar confrontation, a sort of test of tension between two different approaches: on one side self-referencing, the concept that the whole set of knowledge and capabilities generated by medical science establishes self-sufficiency of our field; on the other, the quest to broaden our concept of reason overcoming this self-imposed limitation of reason. At stake is the need to overcome the dissatisfaction and the crisis our field is currently going through. This article will go over some aspects of what we believe to be a paradigm of a much general and crucial cultural problem.

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2010

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