In their CMAJ essay, Whitehead and Kuper1 rightly note that dichotomizing medical
teaching and practice into “science” and “art” is unhelpful and misleading. Montgomery2 …

Medicine was a “productive art”(Aristotle), and now it is an aggregate of such arts. It thus is
supposed to have products, and indeed it does. Hippocrates' empirico-rational medicine …

Commentary Commentaire cent advent of medical science. For one, the availability of
knowledge from medical science provides, increasingly, a superior substitute for that from …

This book evolved through long discussions between the authors and Pertti J. Pelto, whose
keen methodological observations and vast knowledge of the medical-anthropology …

The relationship between evidence-based medicine (EBM) and clinical judgement is the
subject of conceptual and practical dispute. For example, EBM and clinical guidelines are …

The Doctor's Dilemma, asked," Are doctors men of science?" He answered with the
pronouncement that" doctoring is an art, not a science" and continued:" Doctoring is not …

Classical philosophy devoted considerable energy to the division and demarcation of
sciences. For anyone responsibly working in or learning a science, recognizing its position …

This compendium of essays adds to the conversation about the place of humanities and arts
in medical education. The modern version of this debate has been going on since Abraham …

Dear Sir, Today, the practice of medicine has undergone tremendous change due to the
unprecedented developments in medicine in the last four decades. It is no longer …

In the past, there were such things as doctor-priests, extraordinary people who established
special relationships with those who were ill. They were known as shamans. Shamans …