The Rise of Modern Medicine
The Rise of Modern Medicine
This chapter discusses in detail the rise of scientific medicine, while highlighting two significant models used during the nineteenth century: the German laboratory-based model and the Paris hospital-based model. It presents the recent critiques of the Cartesian heritage of modern medicine, drawing attention to its reductionism and dualism. Other factors that have helped shape modern medicine are also examined.
Keywords: scientific medicine, laboratory-based model, hospital-based model, Cartesian heritage, reductionism and dualism, modern medicine
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