THE BEGINNINGS OF WORLD OF DIAGNOSIS WITHIN NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE POLISH SCHOLAR JAN PILTZ

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-408
Author(s):  
Monika Zamachowska ◽  
Ryszard W. Gryglewski
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Neurological Research ◽  
Polish Scientist ◽  
Scientific Achievements

Jan Piltz has gone down in the history of medicine, and not only of Polish medicine, as an eminent researcher into papillary reflexes. Our text is predominantly dedicated to this issue. Our primary goal was to present the course of the research conducted by this Polish scientist, providing details and depicting the conditions in which he reached his solutions; ones so significant for the development of neurology and medical practice. Our paper is a review, therefore, it includes references to both Piltz’s own publications and descriptions of and references to his scientific achievements in the reports of other authors. However, before we touch upon this substantive item of our paper, we assume it would be worthwhile providing a short introduction of Jan Piltz as a scientist and one of the founding fathers of modern Polish neurology.

scholarly journals Posthumanism and the New Ethics of Medical Practice—Epidemiology as the New Deontological Paradigm

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
Timea Vitan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Vantage Points

In the context of the COVID19 pandemic, during last year all public attention has been focused on Medicine. Epidemiology is no longer just one medical specialty among many others, but became the main paradigm and the unique background of medical science. The individual pacient has turned into the collective pacient. Medical policies are not centered on the pacient anymore, but on its social group. In this article I will try to show how the characteristics of medical practice changed since the pandemic began and which are the deontological implications of such changes. With a short introduction on the medical policies proposed by the WHO during the last decades, I wish to underline the recent history of medical practice and its obvious turning point occasioned by the pandemic. Once the new bioethical vantage points are set, I wonder to which extent posthumanist philosophy foresaw this new deontological paradigm. Having Rosi Braidotti`s “The Posthuman” as my starting point, I maintain that medical doctors no longer practice on a humanist background, but with a sort of commitment that goes beyond the individual. However, this is not an antihumansit pledge, because contemporary medical doctors still adhere to certain humanist principles. As it so often happens, we will be left with even more questions. If the pacient is no longer the individual, but the group of individuals, which is the nature of a symptom and how should we decipher its meaning? How would a new medical science look like if we are to build it not on a human but on a posthuman biology?

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.

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