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en-wikipedia-org-1440		Philosophy of medicine - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3534	694	53	The philosophy of medicine is a branch of philosophy that explores issues in theory, research, and practice within the field of health sciences.[1] More specifically in topics of epistemology, metaphysics, and medical ethics, which overlaps with bioethics. Epistemology is a branch in the philosophy of medicine that is concerned with knowledge.[15] The common questions asked are "What is knowing or knowledge?", "How do we know what we know?", "What is it we know when we claim we know".[16] Philosophers differentiate theories of knowledge into three groups: knowledge of acquaintance, competence knowledge, and propositional knowledge. for instance: (1) the ontological revolution which made modern science, in general, possible, (2) Cartesian dualism which makes modern medicine, in particular, possible, (3) the monogenenic conception of disease which has informed clinical medicine for a century or so[22] and also the chemical and biological pathways which underlie the phenomena of health and disease in all organisms, (4) the conceptualization of entities such as 'placebos' and 'placebo effects'.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1440.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1440.txt