DESCARTES AND THE CLINICAL METHOD:

400 YEARS OF DREAMS

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https://doi.org/10.36790/epistemus.v14i28.121

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Rene Descartes, clinical method, philosophy of medicine

Abstract

Four centuries ago, the French philosopher Rene Descartes had a series of dreams that had a profound impact on science and medicine. As a consequence, the first ceased to be a matter of dogmas and traditions to become an issue on which anyone could offer an opinion if evidence is provided. Medicine, on the other hand, ceased considering body function as a tangle balance of fluids to adopt a system based on the functioning of organs. The rules of Cartesian reasoning, described in his famous Discourse on the Method, were embraced by doctors of the nineteenth century to configure the clinical method in use today.

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Published

2021-05-25

How to Cite

Gómez Alcalá, A. V. (2021). DESCARTES AND THE CLINICAL METHOD:: 400 YEARS OF DREAMS. EPISTEMUS, 14(28), 45–50. https://doi.org/10.36790/epistemus.v14i28.121

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