HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Techne
24 Mar 2016
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Anatomy (basic of medical knowledge structures are important) Diagnosis, prognosis (naming of disease, classification naming by going back to its cause; prediction of further course of the disease) Disease as a specific adversity (something bad that happens; ontological) Disease accessible to rational thought and empirical research (system of universal knowledge; Consistency of skill, product of techne can be evaluated rationally; based on observation; using logic without contradictions) Disease as part of nature, particular patterns of explanation. Patterns of intervention and prevention (diet, drugs, surgery) Twm created the conditions of possibility of mwm (it was not inevitable) Mwm is, in part, consciously conceived as one tradition based in twm (how doctors and scientists refer to the past frequently) To look at current things and to understand where they come from.
