ABSTRACT
We open this conclusion, which focuses on research in the medical humanities, by citing once again (see Introduction) Alexis de Tocqueville from the fourth volume of Democracy in America :
There are certain vices and certain virtues that were attached to the constitution of aristocratic nations and that are so contrary to the genius of the new peoples that you cannot introduce those vices and virtues among them . . . They are like two distinct humanities, each of which has its particular advantages and disadvantages, its good and its evil which are its own. So you must be very careful about judging the societies that are being born by the ideas that you have drawn from those that are no longer. That would be unjust, for these societies, differing prodigiously from each other, are not comparable.
(2010: 1282–83)