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Some aspects of medical hermeneutics: The role of dialectic and narrative

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This essay constructs an argument for a dialectic between the scientific and clinical aspects of medicine using the hermeneutical approach of Paul Ricoeur as a theoretical and philosophical guide. Additionally, the relationship between this dialectic and narrative case histories is examined as a way of expressing this abstract and theoretical concept in more concrete terms.

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  1. Resident of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza, 90024, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    James D. Lock

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Lock, J.D. Some aspects of medical hermeneutics: The role of dialectic and narrative. Theor Med Bioeth 11, 41–49 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00489237

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