HeyJaredClaudia Chaufan
Practicing physician in my native Argentina, transitioned to an academic career in the USA, now professor of health policy in Canada. Transformed by the Covid event, now trying to share my work free from the politics of the peer-review system.
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Who is afraid of vaccine hesitancy? (opens the original)
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In a recent philosophical discussion of Molière’s 1673 comedy The Imaginary Invalid, Elanor Taylor revisits one of the most durable jokes in the history of scientific explanation. During a mock medical examination, a candidate is asked why opium makes people sleep. He explains that opium possesses a virtus dormitiva, a “dormitive virtue”, whose nature is to induce sleep. The physicians enthusiastically approve his answer and welcome him to the learned profession of medicine. As Taylor notes, the
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