con-
trast, physicians in England,
home of the empirical tradi-
tion of Bacon, Hume, and
Locke, are the most cau-
tious. They even dispute the
efficacy of the drug AZT as a
treatment for AIDS.
Neither the West Ger- mans nor the French have ever fully accepted Louis Pasteur's discovery that germs cause many diseases; they share the tendency to view disease as a "failure of internal defenses rather than an invasion from with- out," notes Payer. Thus, German doctors rarely pre-...