Beyond Soft (and Hard) Sciences towards complementarity in the ways of knowing
a commentary on the centrality of Critical Qualitative Research in the field of Health
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Health sciences, Postgraduate studies, Complementarity principleAbstract
In the present comment on Gastaldo and Eakin’s proposal for practising Soft Sciences in the field of Health, I have argued that the label Soft might not work in non-English language academic field to stress the importance of Human and Social Sciences. I agree with their emphasis on the importance of teaching about critical thinking in postgraduate programmes, but I suggest a more radical enterprise to review all postgraduate programmes towards a more encompassing view articulating science, philosophy and arts. Finally, I argued for the importance of the complementarity principle as a starting point to articulate knowledge not only from different sciences, Natural and Social, but also encompassing many ways of knowing, including ancient wisdom.
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