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IN this outline I have tried to show the wide sweep and scope of the group of studies properly called medical research. In spite of the widely scattered fields over which it ranges, this work is joined in an organic unity because it has ultimate reference always to the nature and the needs of the living human body. At almost every point will be found interrelations between one part of the work and another, and between the various groups of workers in this extended army. While it is served of course by the medical sciences, physiology, pathology, bacteriology, it calls in increasing degree for intensive studies in the more primary sciences of chemistry and physics. Medicine, in fact, using the word in a wide sense, is already being served by a great army of workers, of which a large and increasing number may have no medical degrees and no direct relation to the medical profession.
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FLETCHER, W. The Scope and Needs of Medical Research. Nature 130, 224–227 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130224a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130224a0