A barrier to medical treatment? British medical practitioners, medical appliances and the patent controversy, 1870–1920

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAIRE L. JONES
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Current Medical Practice ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Patenting Activity

AbstractFrom the late nineteenth century onwards there emerged an increasingly diverse response to escalating patenting activity. Inventors were generally supportive of legislation that made patenting more accessible, while others, especially manufacturers, saw patenting culture as an impediment. The medical profession claimed that patenting represented ‘a barrier to medical treatment’ and was thus detrimental to the nation's health, yet, as I argue, the profession's development of strict codes of conduct forbidding practitioners from patenting resulted in rebellion from some members, who increasingly sought protection for their inventions. Such polarized opinions within the medical trade continue to affect current medical practice today.

Information Prescription and Information Therapy

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-87
Author(s):  
Riddhi Doshi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Randomized Trials ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Current Medical Practice

Gavgani et al., through their systematic review, explore the existing evidence in the area of information prescription and information therapy. The application of Information prescription and information therapy has been explored in a number of developed countries through randomized trials and observational studies. The low awareness about these concepts among medical practitioners has been highlighted. This commentary highlights the routes for IP/Ix dissemination and its application in current medical practice.

scholarly journals Developing an English Language Course for Serbian Doctors

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (51) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Sofija Micic Kandijaš
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
English Language ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Medical English ◽  
Current Medical Practice ◽  
Context Specific

Today, medical practitioners everywhere need to use Medical English (ME) at work or for study. To keep up-to-date with medical science, they need to be competent in ME and take appropriate courses. There has been no such course at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, and the present paper provides suggestions for how to develop such a course, taking into account common and context-specific features. The objective of this article is hence to provide an outline of a ME course for Serbian doctors to increase the doctor’s proficiency in written and spoken communication in the context of current medical practice and patient care. Furthermore, the aim of the article is for the Serbian doctors to be well trained to successfully perform their professional tasks in the English language of medicine.

Discurso méédico, cultura higiéénica y la mujer en la ciudad de Mééxico al cambio de siglo (XIX ––XX)

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Agostoni
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Las Mujeres

This article explores why alongside sanitary legislation and public health works, Mexican physicians of the late nineteenth century attempted to transform the habits, customs and day to day activities of the population. It stresses the importance that the teaching of the principles of private and public hygiene had for the future of the country, how this education was to be carried out, and why some members of the medical profession believed that the hygienic education of mothers/women was an unavoidable requirement for the progress of the nation. Este artíículo analiza por quéé durante las déécadas finales del siglo diecinueve, el gremio méédico mexicano consideraba que era absolutamente indispensable que los habitantes del paíís, y en particular las mujeres de la capital, contaran con una cultura de la higiene. No sóólo era fundamental sanear y ordenar a la ciudad de Mééxico mediante obras de infraestructura sanitaria, y emitir leyes que regularan la salubridad de la nacióón, sino que era igualmente importante, y quizáás máás urgente, que los habitantes transformaran sus háábitos y costumbres de acuerdo con lo establecido por la higiene púública y privada. Asimismo, el artíículo examina los méétodos mediante los cuales se procuróó crear una cultura de la higiene, y por quéé la madre de familia fue considerada como una aliada imprescindible para la empresa de los higienistas.

Ethics in Medical Practice and Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
Pramod Kattel
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Medical Curricula ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
Standard Of Practice

Ethics is a moral guide that helps the treatment group to be treated with due respect and care following the standard of practice. It also helps the research to be conducted without or minimal harm to the population under study. Besides ethics, clinical practice and research are guided by some nationally and internationally accepted principles or codes of conduct. The human subject under treatment or study should be respected to the utmost level and should be performed by trained personnel. The importance of ethics starts before studies so should be kept in medical curricula starting from basic sciences so that medical practitioners become acquainted from the beginning of the study.

Re: Montgomery and its impact on current medical practice – good or bad?

2019 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
Sayantan Bhattacharya ◽  
Chamindri Weerasinghe ◽  
Iftikhar Khan ◽  
Milind Shrotri
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Current Medical Practice

Current medical practice and hyperactive children.

1976 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Sandoval ◽  
Nadine M. Lambert ◽  
Wilson Yandell
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Current Medical Practice ◽  
Hyperactive Children

Rechtsfragen medizinischer Intervention bei intersexuell geborenen Minderjährigen

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Lindenberg
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Surgical Treatment ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Legal System ◽  
German Law ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Gender Reassignment ◽  
Current Medical Practice

A lot of intersexual children undergo gender reassignment surgery to achieve clear classification as being either male or female. In this work, the current medical practice in this regard is examined in terms of its compatibility with German law. The study focuses on informed consent regarding such medical treatment. Furthermore, a comparative analysis of the legal systems in Germany, Austria and Switzerland aims to analyse whether certain regulations concerning the different forms of consent in this respect should be incorporated into the German legal system. All in all, the work pursues a legal policy objective, and develops and evaluates different approaches to improving the situation of intersexual individuals beyond surgical treatment.

scholarly journals The British Market for Medicine in the late Nineteenth Century: The Innovative Impact of S M Burroughs & Co

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Church
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethical Business ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Historians of medicine have tended to be preoccupied primarily with scientific research, the development of therapeutically significant medicines, and ethical business practice. Roy Porter, however, adopted a wider conception. Referring to the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, he redefined the role of “the vile race of quacks” (so described by their own contemporaries) as a manifestation of a burgeoning medical entrepreneurship in an emerging consumer society. He maintained that “Irregular medicine … mobilised the growth of medicine as business”, an aspect of medical history which he believed to have been largely ignored hitherto and one which requires of historians an understanding of the market for pharmaceuticals. Anne Digby has examined the market for medical services during the nineteenth century in an analysis of interactions between doctors and patients at a time when self-dosing was prevalent. However, interactions between medical practitioners and suppliers of medicines in Britain for most of this period remain largely unexplored (with the significant exception of the work by Jonathan Liebenau) and as a result, it will be argued, have been misunderstood.

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