The Discipline of medicine : emerging concepts and their impact upon medical research and medical education
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The Discipline of medicine : emerging concepts and their impact upon medical research and medical education
（Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Natuurkunde, Tweede reeks,
North-Holland, 1994
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Proceedings of the symposium held at Amsterdam, May 25 and 26, 1993
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The initiative for the above mentioned symposium originated in a spontaneous and informal discussion during a meeting of the section of Medicine of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in January 1992. The topic was the 'widely spread feeling of uneasiness, both of the public and the profession, with many aspects of the present state of medicine'. From the discussion emerged the idea to choose basic issues, such as the 'disease model', as a central question. The symposium strengthened the conviction that for the medical scientific community 'back to the basics' with research about disease, with designing education and care, is a prerequisite in order to be able to develop a strategy for a coherent and clear 'Discipline of Medicine' in response to the future needs of society. This book aims to offer a general and elementary sketch of some conceptual problems in three main sectors of medicine. Throughout the book rings the general question whether enough attention is paid to medical problems manifested at high levels of integration and the interaction with environment and society.
Table of Contents
- Editorial Preface. Opening by P.J.D. Drenth. About the Authors. Part 1: Recent Conceptual Trends. Introduction to the first day: emerging concepts (A. Querido). The disease concept and the medical view of man (H.R. Wulff). An historian's perspective on the origins, and the limitations, of modem science (H.F. Cohen). The growth of science and medicine: the opportunities and the obstacles (J.D. Swales). How clinical observations of a congenital disease can be translated in molecular biology terms (S. Refetoff). Molecular biology
- the link between matter and life (A.J. van der Eb). 'The wisdom of the body': the usefulness of systems thinking for medicine (A. Querido, J. van Gijn). Disease entities and open systems (S.A. Pedersen). The biomedical paradigm, psychoneuro-immunology, and the black four of hearts (L. Foss). After Dinner Lecture. Morphogenesis and evolution (B. Goodwin). Part 2: New Trends for Medical Research. Research as an effort to solve medical problems (L.A. van Es). Will basic immunology solve immunological diseases? (K. Peters, Sir). Gene technology as a model for rapid scientific advance: the barriers to clinical applications (R. Williamson, C. Coutelle). The science of health care and science for health (M.J. Peckham). Part 3: Adapting Medical Education to New Developments. Adapting medical education to new developments (E. Mandema). Tools of the trade: methodology for medical students (J. van Gijn). Difficulties in teaching notions of uncertainty to medical students (J. Benbassat). Defining the discipline of medicine: impact for teaching and training (L.B.A. van de Putte). Closure of the symposium (H.K.A. Visser). Acknowledgements.
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