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Through the examination of other early texts the book locates the physician as a seminal figure in ancient society,
first with religious significance, and later with increasingly philosophico-intellectual meaning, the physical
embodiment of the search for moral-pragmatic professional standardization. This inquiry is put to the test as
applied to the existential threat and crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Oana Șerban is Executive director, Research Center for the History and Circulation of Philosophical Ideas, and
PhD Lecturer, at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy, Romania.
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