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By 1932, the historian Henry E. Sigerist had noted that medicine’s systemizing impulses were “no longer concerned with man but with disease,” as Anderson and Mackay point out.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
The job of any doctor, Bludau later told me, is to support quality of life, by which he meant two things: as much freedom from the ravages of disease as possible and the retention of enough function for active engagement in the world. Most doctors treat disease and figure that the rest will take care of itself. And if it doesn’t—if a patient is bec
... See moreAtul Gawande • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Jay Parkinson • Toward a New Definition of Primary Care: Primary care 3.0
Most doctors—most humans, really—have unwittingly inherited a colonial worldview that emphasizes individual health, disconnecting illness from its social and historical contexts and obscuring our place in the web of life that makes us who we are.