Mapping the Disease
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Bacon’s idealistic description of a research process, as naive and utopian as it sounds today, actually depicts the many functions of a single investigator, from literature search and collection of data to attempts of summing-up the investigation: the merchant, the miner, the depredator and the compiler in one face. All the better if some help could be furnished by Renal Disease: Techniques and Protocols , that would have replaced the need for the “merchant” and “depredator” and allowed more time to concentrate on the subject of investigation.