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Response to the Ingersoll Lecture by a Physician

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Henry K. Beecher
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School

Extract

Dr. Pahnke's field of interest, just described, is of very great importance. I can say this even though he and I might have some differences as to methodology. Questions must be asked in terms in which they can be answered. Thus Dr. Pahnke has sketched for us a new and promising approach to problems in an old field, and I am with him all the way in this interest.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1969

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