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clinical medicine
Definition
- The development in the nineteenth century of medical practice, though with origins in fourteenth-century Padua, located in the hospital, synthesizing the observation of disease and built on a knowledge of anatomy based on dissection. This development transformed medicine from a gentlemanly practice, based on cultured learning into a science, based on surgical practice. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Clinical Medicine]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/clinical_medicine
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