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socially or morally wrong.” For an
opposing view, see Brandt (1988).
30 Crookshank (1923: 343), in his quaint
idiom, states: “In modern Medicine
this tyranny of names is no less
pernicious than is the modern form
of scholastic realism [the view that
diseases are “morbid entities” of
the phenomenal world]. Diagnosis,
which, as Mr Bernard Shaw has
somewhere declared, should mean
the finding out of all there is wrong
with a particular patient and why,
too often means in practice that
formal and unctuous pronunciation
of a Name that is deemed appropriate
and absolves from the necessity of
further investigation.”
31 For a history of this epistemological
dualism that subordinates subjective
awareness (the patient’s) to direct
observation (the physician’s), see
Sullivan (1986).
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