... selec-tion of precisely 17 Great Ideas, not to mention these specific 17 ideas. Such debate is healthy, and we eagerly await recommendations from readers concerning candidates for other Great Ideas ... clinical scientists, would regard as the 17 Great Ideas of clinical science. These ideas comprise the framework for this volume.WHAT MAKES AN IDEA GREAT? Although we will not attempt to offer ... social). Most or all of the great ideas in this volume, we maintain, have fostered connections among disparate intellectual approaches.We regard these 17 Great Ideas as the fundamental concepts—philo-sophical,...