Medical Violations

Cinema, MD ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 217-244
Author(s):  
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Sham Treatment ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Medical Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Psychological Experiments

Medical research often involves experiments, and these may include psychological experiments into human behavior, which have attracted filmmakers. A number of atrocities have been depicted in films, and they importantly record horrific episodes in the history of medicine. Filmmakers have been drawn toward medicine’s failures and foibles including chilling “extreme measures” in the medical tradition and even modern medicine. The medical discoveries and stories of overcoming disease seem to be less interesting to filmmakers; narratives of sham “treatment,” professional abuse of power, and wickedness work better.

Théophraste Renaudot (1586–1653)

2018 ◽  
pp. 353-370
Author(s):  
Olivier Walusinski
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Gilles de la Tourette had a passion for the history of medicine and ideas, with a particular attachment to the city of Loudun, where his family had its roots. In 1884, he published a biography of another Loudun native, Théophraste Renaudot, a seventeenth-century physician who advocated reform in medical studies, calling into question the rigid scholastic method, limited to Hippocratic and Galenic medicine, in order to develop truly clinical practices as well as medical research. This chapter presents this biography and its genesis, Gilles de la Tourette’s hidden debt to Eugène Hatin, and unpublished letters received by Gilles de la Tourette after the book’s publication. Drawing on archival documents, the process Gilles de la Tourette initiated to erect a Renaudot statue in Paris and Loudun is detailed, as is his induction into the Ordre de la Légion d’honneur.

History of Modern Medicine

2015 ◽  
pp. 28-43
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
History Of

The purpose of this chapter is to understand the problems in health care today, and the need to trace the history of medicine to its roots. Methods of evolution of medical practice have a lot to say about how training of medical professionals must be carried out. The history of medicine is both fascinating in scope yet elementary in application. In other words, medicine has always been about the patient and no one but the patient.

Food for inefficient thought

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-148
Author(s):  
Melvin D. Levine ◽  
Craig B. Liden
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
School Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
The Subject

The notion that "even an unwholesome diet" may have an impact upon the function of the central nervous system has been a recurring theme in the history of medicine and the study of human behavior. In the current issue of Pediatrics, Conners et al.1 present an important exploration of a comtemporary hypothesis regarding this association. Ultimately, their and other studies on the subject may modify our approach to the inefficient school-age child, or, alternatively, such pursuits may form another unfulfilling flirtation in the on-going romance between behaviorists and food faddists. THE POPULATION CONSIDERED In recent years, there has been growing awareness that there exists a population of children whose performance in life is handicapped significantly by intrinsic or constitutional inefficiencies.

scholarly journals Kommunikationsprobleme in der medizinhistorischen Mittelalterforschung

Gesnerus ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 20-33
Author(s):  
Ortrun Riha
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Social History ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social History Of Medicine

Although medieval medical research on scientific prose has a tradition of a hundred years, its results are largely ignored by the scientific community. The reason for this is not only a shift of interest towards the social history of medicine but, more important, a deficiency in the fields of systematology and terminology which makes communication difficult, if not impossible. Most regrettable is the lack of a comprehensive review of the texts and their topics which could serve as a basis for further methodological discussion.

AVICENNA, FῙ AL-ʾUMŪR AL-KULLIYYA MIN ʿILM AL-ṬIBB, ED. NAJAFGHOLI HABIBI (HAMADAN, 2018)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-275
Author(s):  
Jules Janssens
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
History Of ◽  
Full Sense ◽  
Ancient Manuscript

That Ibn Sīnā’s “Canon of medicine” figures among the major classics of the history of medicine is doubted by no serious historian of medicine, eastern or western, Islamic or non-Islamic alike. It is therefore all the more surprising that so far no serious critical edition of this text was available. Certainly, a first, very timid step toward a really critical edition (published during the years 1982-1996) was made at the Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Research (New Delhi), under the direction of Hakeem Abdul Hameed (1908-1999). It compared the four existing editions: Rome 1593; Būlāq (Cairo) 1877; Tehran (lithograph) 1878; and Lucknow 1905. In addition it used (a photocopy of) an ancient manuscript of Aya Sophia, dated 618, i. e. MS Aya Sophia 3686. With this new edition a further important step toward a full critical edition is made. Even if it is obvious that it does not yet present a “critical edition” in the full sense of the word, it has important merits.

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