title: Hippocratic explanations.
abstract: This paper considers VM's largely unrecognised contribution to a debate which spanned philosophy and medicine concerning the demands an adequate explanation must meet in the operation of a craft. VM's special contribution consists in indicating a means to an understanding of a mutual interdependence of theory and practice which acknowledges the strengths of a theoretical explanatory framework, but also recognises that practical success should inform that theory.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barton
mesh_terms: D019348:Empiricism / Q000266:history*; D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*