A Plea for More History

Timo Bolt

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A Plea for More History

Timo Bolt^*

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In his Is There An Epistemic Role For History In Medicine? Thinking About Thyroid Cancer Nicholas Binney (Chap. 7, this volume) aims to show how historical work can have its epistemic function, that is: a role in understanding and therefore justifying medical knowledge and practice. From my perspective as a medical historian, Binney’s programmatic text raises three questions: (1) Is this epistemic role for history important?; (2) Is Binney’s argument convincing?; (3) How can a plea for history appear so ahistorical, or more positively put: how can we make Binney’s promising approach even more historical? In what follows, I will try and answer these questions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Philosophy and Medicine
Editors	Maartje Schermer, Nicholas Binney
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Chapter	8
Pages	109-113
Number of pages	5
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-62241-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-62240-3, 978-3-031-62243-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62241-0_8
Publication status	Published - 19 Jul 2024

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Series	Philosophy and Medicine
Volume	151
ISSN	0376-7418

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