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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. Avicenna’s most famous metaphysical treatise (15[1])is (*) titled for applying this field to the soul, and he wrote an encyclopedic (10[1])canon on this field recording (10[1])the ideas of thinkers like Galen, who supported the theory of four humors (10[1])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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Odysseas GabrielatosWarwick BCambridge A7215
Albert NyangLSE ASouthampton7915
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Cormac BeirneLSE BImperial B11110