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19 - Pathology

from PART II - ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTATION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2009

By
Russell Maulitz
Edited by
Peter J. Bowler  and
John V. Pickstone
Peter J. Bowler
Affiliation:
Queen's University Belfast
John V. Pickstone
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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Summary

The development of pathology, with all its complex roots and branches, seems harder to account for than for most of the disciplines we take to underlie medical education and “scientific medicine.” The effort requires an array of cross-cutting bits of medical history, all working at different levels. A full account needs to include pathological museums and the collecting impulse, and the development of disease concepts as far as those concepts came to be localized in bodies (or, for that matter, generalized in bodies). It also needs to include the developing patterns of “disease itself,” however we mean that, for “the Seats and Causes of disease” that Giovanni Battista Morgagni and later doctors described in bodies depended as much on changing epidemiological patterns as on the tools with which the doctors variously confronted the diseased. New diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), human ritual behaviors, family lives, Homo sapiens’ relations with other animals and with natural environments, and (especially) urbanization with its attendant concentration of illnesses in hospitals – all helped condition the “pathology” that would be “seen” by medical observers.

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The Cambridge History of Science , pp. 367 - 382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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