Medical Technologies Past and Present: How History Helps to Understand the Digital Era.
J Med Humanit
; 43(2): 343-364, 2022 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
This article explores the relationship between medicine's history and its digital present through the lens of the physician-patient relationship. Today the rhetoric surrounding the introduction of new technologies into medicine tends to emphasize that technologies are disturbing relationships, and that the doctor-patient bond reflects a more 'human' era of medicine that should be preserved. Using historical studies of pre-modern and modern Western European medicine, this article shows that patient-physician relationships have always been shaped by material cultures. We discuss three activities - recording, examining, and treating - in the light of their historical antecedents, and suggest that the notion of 'human medicine' is ever-changing it consists of social attributions of skills to physicians that played out very differently over the course of history.
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MEDLINE
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Médicos
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Medicina
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Humans
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En
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J Med Humanit
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ETICA
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article
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Canadá