PubMed · 375544
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J R Herman. 1979. Urine testing apparatus.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/375544/
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Ours is the age of science and technology. The conclusions of modern medical science and theories are derived from experimental research developed since the last century by the life sciences, with the methods of the exact and physical sciences, and the invaluable aid of technology. This paper compares past systems of medicine with our own, and examines the role of science and theory in medical practice, in the remote and recent past and at present. Has medical science and theory in the past been of benefit to medical practice? Has it helped the physician to understand disease? To treat the sick? Finally, the paper looks at a number of uncomfortable questions raised by medical practice in our own time. The widespread rejection of today's medical practice with its flawed doctor-patient relationship, its super-specialization and mechanization, and its incessantly growing reliance on technology, is examined in the light of the prodigious advances of modern medical science and some of its abuses and exorbitant claims as well as its rejection of the value of past medical systems. Our need is for an integration of the old and the new, in a synthesis that will lead us back to a more human medicine.
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This paper is about western physicians in general, and the Israeli variant in particular. The theoretical focus will be on the nature and dynamics of the medical professional self within this interplay between the cultural concepts of universality and difference. The discussion will address the genesis of this professional self and the implications of its extraordinary strength and tenacity, which has endured for centuries in different local contexts wherever western medicine has existed. The impetus for this study is the subdued rumbling which is echoing throughout the profession suggesting that this self is no longer the "Rock of Gibraltar" that it seemed in the past.