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The risk of self-referencing

Authors: Antonio del Puente, Antonella Esposito, Lorenzo Savignano, Vinicio Lombardi, Gaetano Lombardi, Raffaele Scarpa

Published in: Journal of Medicine and the Person | Issue 3/2010

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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Title: The risk of self-referencing
Authors: Antonio del Puente
Antonella Esposito
Lorenzo Savignano
Vinicio Lombardi
Gaetano Lombardi
Raffaele Scarpa
Publication date: 01-12-2010
Publisher: Springer Milan
Published in: Journal of Medicine and the Person / Issue 3/2010
Print ISSN: 2035-9411
Electronic ISSN: 2036-3877
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12682-010-0070-6

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