Journal of Family Medicine
Open Access
Knowing, Proposing and Acting: Epistemological Aspects of Medical Practice in the New Millennium.
Jul 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2640-690X.jfm-18-2180
Rafael VargasCorresponding author
In this work, it is analysed how the medical practice is imbued with Cartesian rational thought as well as empiricist thought and it is stated that medicine is an art and is science. It is proposed that the object of knowledge of the medical practice is not the concept of disease but health. It is f…