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THIS lecture, written in simple words and infused by a contemplative charm, is not designed to answer the age-old questions: Have we a soul? What is mind? and so forth. It briefly discusses these questions and suggests to us why they cannot be answered and why they probably never will be answered. But the purpose of the lecture is rather to consider how medicine, by bringing science and thought into intimate and personal relationship with humanity, "has resulted in science making a greater contribution to thought than otherwise would have been the case".
The Art of Medicine in Relation to the Progress of Thought
A Lecture in the History of Science Course in the University of Cambridge, February 10th, 1945. By A. E. Clark-Kennedy. Pp. 48. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1945.) 2s. net.
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LAPAGE, G. The Art of Medicine in Relation to the Progress of Thought. Nature 156, 488 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156488a0
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