160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1976, this book surveys the development of medicine through history and examines how it has related to society and the climate of opinion at different times. The main discussion, based on broad experience in the UK and Australia is what medicine’s place in the world should be and what its value to society is. Over the centuries, as medicine’s scope and scale have... Read more

1. From Magic Towards Science 2. Schism Between Religion and Nature, Body and Mind 3. Charity, Institutionalisation, Materialism 4. Scientific, Technological and Social Revolution 5. Mind Returns to Medicine 6. Paradoxes in Medical Thought 7. Relief and Comfort 8. The Inconsistencies of Medicine and Society 9. Medical Education 10. Criticism of Medical Education 11. Medicine the Commodity 12. The Value of Medicine 13. The Future 14. Trial Solutions?

Biography

Philip Rhodes (1922–2002) career included being a consultant obstetric physician from 1958-1964; professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in the University of London at St Thomas’s hospital, 1964-1974; dean of St Thomas’s hospital medical school, 1968-1974; dean of the medical faculty of medicine, University of Adelaide, 1975-1977; post-graduate dean of medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1977-1980; post-graduate dean of medicine and professor of post-graduate medical education, University of Southampton, 1980-1987. 

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