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The authors think that the major obstacle to the development of science and scientific medicine was
{ 1 } - the priestly aspect of medicine.
{ 2 } - the traditional unity between theory and practice.
{ 3 } - a social system based on the division between the educated freemen who despised manual work and the slaves and serfs who were bound to do it.
{ 4 } - the unity between the spiritual and material realm.
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The authors think that the major obstacle to the development of science and scientific medicine was
{ 1 } - the priestly aspect of medicine.
{ 2 } - the traditional unity between theory and practice.
{ 3 } - a social system based on the division between the educated freemen who despised manual work and the slaves and serfs who were bound to do it.
{ 4 } - the unity between the spiritual and material realm.
See pp. 78-9.
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The authors think that the major obstacle to the development of science and scientific medicine was
{ 1 } - the priestly aspect of medicine.
{ 2 } - the traditional unity between theory and practice.
{ 3 } - a social system based on the division between the educated freemen who despised manual work and the slaves and serfs who were bound to do it.
{ 4 } - the unity between the spiritual and material realm.
It was the division of these that was the obstacle.
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The authors think that the major obstacle to the development of science and scientific medicine was
{ 1 } - the priestly aspect of medicine.
{ 2 } - the traditional unity between theory and practice.
{ 3 } - a social system based on the division between the educated freemen who despised manual work and the slaves and serfs who were bound to do it.
{ 4 } - the unity between the spiritual and material realm.
Science and scientific medicine involved some manual work and experimentation that the educated had contempt for.
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The authors think that the major obstacle to the development of science and scientific medicine was
{ 1 } - the priestly aspect of medicine.
{ 2 } - the traditional unity between theory and practice.
{ 3 } - a social system based on the division between the educated freemen who despised manual work and the slaves and serfs who were bound to do it.
{ 4 } - the unity between the spiritual and material realm.
It was the incorrect dualism of these that was the obstacle.
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