From Medicine for Sickness—to Medicine for Health?
In: Problems of economic transition, Band 55, Heft 12, S. 3-5
ISSN: 1557-931X
In: Problems of economic transition, Band 55, Heft 12, S. 3-5
ISSN: 1557-931X
In: The world today, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 30-31
ISSN: 0043-9134
World Affairs Online
In: The world today, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 30
ISSN: 0043-9134
In: Monthly review: an independent socialist magazine, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 61-73
ISSN: 0027-0520
The practice of medicine is examined from radical & orthodox socialist points of view. Medicine's contribution to the maintenance of health & the cure of disease is seen as a function of the need to reproduce the dominant power relations in society. The opposition of the medical profession to the redefinitions of homosexuality (from an illness to a health-neutral status) & abortion (from a solely medical to a social intervention) is illustrative of the bourgeoisie's domination of medicine. The history of this domination is traced, & it is concluded that the practice of medicine "should be based on a different technical & social DofL in which health & medical interventions are undertaken in collaborative rather than exploitative relations.". T. Berke
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 363, S. 60-69
ISSN: 0002-7162
The ethical problems of the Med profession stem from the extraordinarily high value placed on life, wellbeing, & freedom from pain in our culture; from the necessarily intimate relation of MD & patient; from the strains of private practice, a small entrepreneur role, in a society of big gov, big business, big labor, & big cities; & from contradictory soc values in matters of religion, sex, & right of privacy in the individual's own body; from failures of medicine & the limits of sci; & from the conflict over change in the org of Med service. The profession has fought its battles with notable success on most fronts, but without a fully satisfactory answer to the tough problem of maintaining quality. Med society discipline & malpractice suits have not provided effective enforcement. Isolated individual practice is diminishing. Group practice, certification of advanced training, widened hosp-staff membership, & improved hos certification provide new disci- ; plines to enforce quality. The language of medicine's codes &,of the politico-econ debate have contributed to a public image of guild restrictionism & self-protection. Though impossible to measure, change appears to have been, in fact, to marked improvement in quality & protection of the patient against negligent, incompetent, or exploitative Med service. The introduction of compulsory sickness insurance & soc'ized medicine raises the new ehical issue of the MD's strike. HA.
In: The world today, Band 65, Heft 2
ISSN: 0043-9134
Around three million people living with AIDS in developing countries have access to treatment, a ten-fold increase in just a few years. A key factor in this dramatic achievement was the availability of low-cost drugs produced in India, the pharmacy of the developing world. Companies there could produce AIDS drugs generically because the country did not grant medicine patents until 2005. However, this is now changing. India has begun granting patents on medicines to meet its obligations under the 1994 World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The prices of newer essential medicines are likely to rise, threatening the viability of many AIDS treatment programs -- and access to medicines more broadly. An international patent pool for essential medicines could help address this looming crisis. Adapted from the source document.
In: How Change Happens: A Theory of Philosophy of History, Social Change and Cultural Evolution, (2009) Best Publications Limited
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In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 367-382
ISSN: 1875-2152
In: The Freeman: ideas on liberty, Band 12, S. 50-57
ISSN: 0016-0652, 0445-2259
In: Almanac of sea power, Band 58, Heft 7
ISSN: 0736-3559, 0199-1337
In: Modern intellectual history: MIH, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 586-595
ISSN: 1479-2451
Why should intellectual historians care about the history of medicine? As someone who admires and draws frequently on intellectual history but is mostly an outsider to the field, I asked myself this question after accepting the invitation to review two books related to medical history for Modern Intellectual History. To make the question manageable, I decided to investigate how much the history of medicine had cropped up in the pages of MIH since it began publishing in 2004. Three terms fundamental to the history of medicine went into the MIH search engine: "medicine," "physician," and "disease." "Medicine" yielded seven hits, "physician" three, and "disease" one. Curious to see in what context "medicine" appeared, I clicked on the seven hits and discovered three book reviews, two articles that made mention of medicine only incidentally, and two articles that connected medicine to the history of subjectivity. Because seven hits seemed low and the subjectivity result intrigued me, I went back to the search engine with a more specific set of terms. "Psychology" yielded sixteen hits, "psychoanalysis" fourteen, and "psychiatry" one. These results, of course, only tell us about the publishing record of MIH and not necessarily about the research interests that intellectual historians might have in the history of medicine. Still, they do suggest that the piece of medical history most useful to intellectual historians concerns the mind/brain sciences—that is, those sciences most likely to engage minds, selves, identities, the individual, and related constructs of interiority. Apparently less interesting is work from other vibrant research areas in medical history: diseases (e.g. cholera, cancer, plague), hospitals, medical education, medical practice, medical technology, medical sciences (e.g. physiology, nutrition, biochemistry), and the body, to name just a few. Intellectual historians, it seems, hold a strong but quite selective interest in medicine right now.
In: Labour / Le Travail, Band 12, S. 344
In: World health forum: an intern. journal of health development, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 133-146
ISSN: 0251-2432
In: Journal of Arab affairs, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 69-83
ISSN: 0275-3588
In: Monthly review: an independent socialist magazine, Band 38, S. 61-73
ISSN: 0027-0520
How it differs from "capitalist" and "statist" medicine.