Abstract
The concept of medicine is defined with “art” as its proximate genus in one of the two most eminent – “authoritative” – English-language dictionaries of medicine, but with “art and science” in this role in the other; and as the specific differences within these genera the two dictionaries give the respective concerns, “preventing or curing disease” and “the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health” [20]. The I.E.A. dictionary [4] leaves medicine undefined.
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Miettinen, O. S. (2011). Terms and Concepts of Medicine. In Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts (pp. 3–28). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1171-6_1
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