Criticism of medicine as centered in molecular biology and technology, and prone to neglect the personal and social dimensions of health and illness, has a long history. Already in the 1880s, at the very epoch-making moment in which medicine was being reconstituted by discoveries from laboratory science, there was pushback. In early 1886, just weeks after the public announcement of a breakthrough with regard to a vaccine for rabies,Puck, the famous American magazine of humor and political satire, ran a panel of cartoons about medicine. One has the caption “No Time for Common Sick Folks.” The drawing (see figure...
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