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the processes of analysis and problem resolution are tested. In this sense, Medicine
shares with the basic sciences it uses criteria of inter-subjectivity that allow a nor-
mative area to be established in which 'what is valid' is recognised by convention;
finally, this convention must be interpreted by an expert in the specific context of
the intervention. Medicine is more than objective knowledge or a practice based on
rules, it is systemic knowledge which emerges from understanding the valid knowl-
edge that experts use when analysing problems that affect health and disease and
searching for solutions.
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