Broadbent Alex
African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
J Med Philos. 2018 May 9;43(3):325-341. doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhy002.
This article is a reply to two critics of my "Prediction, Understanding, and Medicine," published elsewhere in this journal issue. In that essay, I argued that medicine is best understood not as essentially a curative enterprise, but rather as one essentially oriented towards prediction and understanding. Here, I defend this position from several criticisms made of it.