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directive discipline

a field of study, particularly within the social sciences or humanities, that provides explicit or implicit answers to prescriptive questions regarding society and the conduct of individual lives. For example, philosophy is a directive discipline when it suggests that some ethical system is to be recommended over another. Psychology is a directive discipline to the extent that it describes a healthy or fully functioning life and may attempt to modify behaviors that fall short of this ideal.

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systemic mucopolysaccharidosis

systemic mucopolysaccharidosis

see Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome.