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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 (15[1])of Plato’s Phaedrus. (15[1])Paying (15[1])to sacrifice (15[1])a rooster to a God of this field was the last request of (15[1])Socrates. Avicenna’s most famous metaphysical treatise is (*) titled for applying this field to the soul, and he wrote an encyclopedic canon on this field recording the ideas of thinkers like Galen, who supported the theory of four humors in it. For 10 points, name this discipline, some of whose practitioners must swear to “do no harm” to patients. ■END■

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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