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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
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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 idea of probing into bodies, living and dead (and especially human bodies) with a view to improving medicine is more or less distinctive to the European medical tradition.
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
“Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite widespread fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral age. Thanks to immunological technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century... See more
The true doctor would no longer be an intermediary with the gods but the bedside friend of the sick.