Medicine as techne - A perspective from antiquity

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 403-425

  Hofmann, Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ethics; Practice; Techne; Technology; Theory

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHILOSOPHY; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; THEORY;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

FACULTY, MEDICAL; HEALTH SERVICES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT;

EID: 0141926686     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jmep.28.4.403.15967     Document Type: Review

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