Singularities and Universals: The Historical Roots of Case Reports and Clinical Trials in Biomedical Literature

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This manuscript examines the historical underpinnings of two prominent genres in biomedical literature: the individualized case report and the systematically averaged clinical trial. Although both are fundamental to clinical science, their intellectual origins reflect divergent approaches to the study of nature. Tracing these approaches back to classical antiquity, we find Hippocratic medicine valuing detailed obs...

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6bbcbfd3-962b-59be-a1ad-6fc2aff8796f

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10.20944/preprints202510.1583.v1