Medicine As a Scholarly Field

Abstract

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I Preamble -- 1 The Genesis of Modern Medicine -- Contents -- 1.0 Abstract -- 1.1 Hippocrates as `The Father of Medicine' -- 1.2 Galen as `The Second Hippocrates' -- 1.3 Hippocratic Progress in Medicine -- 1.4 Scientific Progress in Medicine -- 1.4.1 `Basic' vs. `Clinical' Contributions -- 1.4.2 Academic vs. Industrial Contributions -- 1.4.3 Epidemiological Contributions -- 1.5 Progress Leading to Fragmentation -- 2 How to Introduce Modern Medicine -- Contents -- 2.0 Abstract -- 2.1 A Paradigm for the Introduction -- 2.2 Implications of the Paradigm -- 2.3 Insufficiency of the Paradigm -- 2.4 Significance of the Paradigm -- 2.4.1 Significance re Content -- 2.4.2 Significance re Process -- Part II General Concepts of Medicine -- 3 General Concepts of the Objects of Medicine -- Contents -- 3.0 Abstract -- 3.1 Health -- 3.2 Illness -- 3.2.1 Illness as Somatic Anomaly -- 3.2.2 Illness as Hidden or Overt -- 3.2.3 The Prevailing Confusion -- 3.3 Sickness -- 3.3.1 Sickness in Health -- 3.3.2 Sickness from Illness -- 3.3.3 Symptoms and Signs -- 3.3.4 Syndrome of Sickness -- 3.3.5 Overview -- 3.4 Disease -- 3.5 Pathogenesis -- 3.6 Etiogenesis -- 3.6.1 The Concept of Etiogenesis -- 3.6.2 Concepts of Causation -- 3.6.3 Microbes as Pseudocauses -- 3.7 Course -- 3.7.1 The Concept of Course of Illness -- 3.7.2 Complication of Illness -- 3.7.3 Outcome of Illness -- 3.7.4 Overview -- 3.8 Risk -- 3.9 Morbidity -- 3.9.1 The Prevailing Confusion -- 3.9.2 Rates of Morbidity -- 3.9.3 Types of Population -- 3.9.4 Rates vis-à-vis Risks -- 3.10 Mortality -- 3.11 Glossary -- 4 General Concepts of Medicine Itself -- Contents -- 4.0 Abstract -- 4.1 Medicine -- 4.1.1 The Essence of Medicine -- 4.1.2 Surgery in Medicine -- 4.1.3 Branches of Medicine -- 4.1.4 Rational Medicine -- 4.1.5 Scientific Medicine.