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The Creation of Partial Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

DAVID GREAVES
Affiliation:
David Greaves, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Philosophy & Health Care, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Armstrong describes the rise of a new mode of medical practice that he calls “surveillance medicine,” in the following terms: “Despite the obvious triumph of a medical theory and practice grounded in the hospital, a new medicine based on the surveillance of normal populations can be identified as emerging in the twentieth century.” Surveillance medicine gives rise to a novel and underexplored aspect of the long-standing tension between the different goals of clinical medicine and public health.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: TERRA INCOGNITA: UNCHARTED TERRAIN BETWEEN DOCTORS AND PATIENTS
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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