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30 sie 2008 · Historians of medicine study institutions, classification systems, and the social and cultural values that physicians, patients, and their families bring to the clinical encounter. The notion that the history of medicine could be accessed through current clinical encounters and contemporary medical practice is an anathema to academic historians.
Medical records, as defined for this narrative, identify the patient and document, in written and graphic forms, all detail about his health history, clinical symptoms and signs, diagnostic and treatment procedures, medications and justification for their use, and the follow-up continuity.
They believed that medical history should focus on examinations of disease discovery, diagnosis, and treatment from the perspective of medical practice and science, through examinations of the contributions and techniques of exemplary physicians.
19 kwi 2012 · In addition to disseminating new knowledge, medical journals define the scope of medical concerns and articulate norms for physicians' professional and social roles. The history...
19 sie 2023 · It explores the position of the physician-historian in medical historiography, discusses Coakley’s extensive historical work (especially his many books about the history of medicine), and concludes with comments about one of Coakley’s great interests: the work of Sir William Wilde (1815–1876).
16 lut 2008 · But a new generation of medical historians, often trained in both medicine and history, has argued that an applied history of medicine can serve as an important tool in medical research.
7 lip 2021 · We discuss three activities – recording, examining, and treating – in the light of their historical antecedents, and suggest that the notion of ‘human medicine’ is ever-changing: it consists of social attributions of skills to physicians that played out very differently over the course of history.
