title: Some aspects of medical hermeneutics: the role of dialectic and narrative.
abstract: This essay constructs an argument for a dialectic between the scientific and clinical aspects of medicine using the hermeneutical approach of Paul Ricoeur as a theoretical and philosophical guide. Additionally, the relationship between this dialectic and narrative case histories is examined as a way of expressing this abstract and theoretical concept in more concrete terms.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Lock
mesh_terms: D007802:Language; D008487:Medical History Taking; D010686:Philosophy, Medical