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While science may be considered a symbol of legitimacy and source of power for the medical profession, physicians’ clinical expertise may be regarded as their personal power and private magic. For years this expertise has been left relatively unchallenged: science moved more and more into the “lab” (laboratory) to develop basic science theory, leaving patient care decisions in the clinic to physician judgement (Starr 1982; Feinstein 1983a).
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Gordon, D.R. (1988). Clinical Science and Clinical Expertise: Changing Boundaries between Art and Science in Medicine. In: Lock, M., Gordon, D. (eds) Biomedicine Examined. Culture, Illness and Healing, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2725-4_11
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