In a clinical discipline this will include a common experience
of clinical problems and an agreed clinical method, as well as an agreement
about an agenda for research. For a discipline to be truly independent, there
should be some research questions that can only be addressed from inside the
discipline. Even if methods are borrowed from other disciplines, only somebody
inside the discipline can know the context in which the methods are applied,
especially the methodological pitfalls. An epistemological basis also implies an