Diseases are invisible

Medical Humanities

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 71-73

  Fredriksen, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROSCOPE; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RADIOGRAPHY; STETHOSCOPE;

EID: 0036902079     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/mh.28.2.71     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. The importance of Laennec's invention of the stethoscope is supported by different authors. See: Porter R. The greatest benefit to mankind. London: Fontana Press, 1999; Foucault M. The birth of the clinic. Bristol: J W Arrowsmith Ltd, 1991; Reiser SJ. Medicine and the reign of technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1978.
2. See reference 1: all the authors referred to, discuss bedside medicine.
3. Arendt H. The human condition. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989: 274-5.
4. See reference 3: 274.
5. Descartes R. Discourse on method and the meditations. London: Penguin, 1968.
6. Foucault M. The birth of the clinic. Bristol: J W Arrowsmith Ltd, 1991: 124-48. Open up a few corpses is the title of the chapter in which Foucault writes most extensively about Bichat.
7. Porter R. The greatest benefit to mankind. London: Fontana Press, 1999: 307.
8. This is one of the main theses in Reiser SJ. Medicine and the reign of technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
9. Hofmann B. The technological invention of disease. Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 2001;27:10-19.
10. Illich I. Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health. London: Calder and Boyars, 1975.
11. Skrabanek P. The death of human medicine and the rise of coercive healthism. London: Social Affairs Unit, 1994.
12. Le Fanu J. The rise and fall of modern medicine. London: Little Brown, 1999.
13. The advantage is of course not given only to members of the medical profession. It is given to anyone sufficiently trained in a technology. Many diabetics measure their blood glucose at home and adjust their insulin dosage singlehandedly.