[Medicine and archaeology: comparison of methods].
Medicine and archaeology are human sciences: their diagnostic claim consists of establishing the link between the singular case and the general model. Comparing and contrasting the two processes is not limited to a game of "similarities-differences". It makes possible a finer analysis of different methods of data collection, either with or without the help of instruments, and a comparison of different ways of handling and classifying symptoms observed and documentary evidence gathered. It shows that archaeology, in contrast to medicine (with physiology and health), has as a discipline, no real precisely defined reference. It is suggested that it is in the interest of medicine and archaeology to compare their own working methods...and their imperfections.
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Unité 49 INSERM, Pontchaillou, Rennes.
Bruneau
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D001106:Archaeology / Q000379:methods*; D015984:Causality; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*
Médecine et archéologie: confrontation méthodologique.