It is customary to think that it is good practice, before talking about a particular thing, to give a preliminary definition of it that serves as the starting point for a correct discourse. For this definitional purpose, there are voicabulars. In preparing to deal with the topic "medicine" it would therefore be necessary or appropriate to first consult an updated vocabulary capable of satisfactorily answering the question: what is medicine? But, having obtained the answer, the objection would immediately follow: is medicine a thing? and is it unique? The double question can be formulated in a more sophisticated way: is medicine a single objective reality, capable of being objectified in a univocal form? The legitimate doubt arises that medicine is a reality, rather than formally objectifying, subjectively perceived in different, variable ways. The factors of this variability are many: historical, first of all, and then, in actuality, linked to common sense (of patients) and to technical-scientific knowledge (of doctors), but also to the registry office (sex and age) of the subjects concerned, their physical and psychological involvement, their social and cultural status, that is, their status, their wealth, their mentality and their beliefs. Perceived in these different ways, medicine takes the
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