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Nancy Krieger has analyzed the role of physical reductionism in this field and also explored its links to race and social class. The ancient methodist school of this field attempted to ground it only in empirical phenomena. A Greek word relating to poison, scapegoating, and this field was explored by Jacques Derrida in an analysis of Plato’s Phaedrus. Paying to sacrifice a rooster to a God of this field was the last request (15[1])of Socrates. (15[1])Avicenna’s most famous metaphysical treatise (-5[1])is (*) titled for applying this field to the soul, and he wrote an encyclopedic canon (10[1])on this field recording the ideas of thinkers like Galen, (10[2])who supported the theory (10[1])of four humors in it. (10[1])For 10 points, name this discipline, some of whose practitioners must swear to “do no harm” to patients. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: medicine [accept biomedicine, accept health; accept healing; accept pharmacy; accept pharmacology; accept pharmaceuticals; prompt on remedy; prompt on epidemiology by asking “can you be less specific?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
James McCurleyHarvardMIT7215
Christopher DechBrandeis ABowdoin C7415
Aalok BhattacharyaBoston College AClark House79-5
Gabriel MargoliesBoston College BBowdoin A9410
Michael ZhengAmherstTufts B10410
Yixi YangYaleBU10410
Michael SunBrandeis BBowdoin B10810
Madeline StrausTufts AClark Wilson11310
Derek FinoClark HouseBoston College A13210