Article ID: CBB001210682

Looking for Trouble: Medical Science and Clinical Practice in the Historiography of Modern Medicine (2011)

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The relationship between the pursuit of science and the practice of medicine has been a theme of abiding interest among medical historians. For the past 30 years or so, historians have characterised that relationship largely in terms of divergence, tension and conflict. My contention is that that tension has been over-stated. In this paper, I show how the narrative of conflict came to dominate historians' accounts of science--medicine relations, and suggest some reasons why that narrative, rather than a more mutualistic understanding of science and medicine, enjoys such credibility among historians of medicine.

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Authors & Contributors
Silvano, Giovanni
Karakis, Ioannis
Brigo, Francesco
Basso Lorini, Elisabetta
Sutton, Katie
Antoine-Mahut, Delphine
Concepts
Historiography
Medicine and science, relationships
Medicine
Clinical medicine
Historians of science, modern
Science and culture
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
Ancient
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
Italy
Greece
France
Afghanistan
Flanders
England
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