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The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories

The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories

Carter, K. Codell

Hardcover

Series: History of Medicine in Context

Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0754606783
ISBN13: 9780754606789
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 7 2003
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However, this has not always been the case: until the early nineteenth century physicians thought of diseases in quite different terms. In the 1830s, fifty years before Koch's publications on tuberculosis, specific causes were being identified for several non-bacterial diseases including scabies, muscardine and ringworm. By the end of the century, the quest for specific causes had spread well beyond bacterial diseases. The expanding research programme included Freud's early work on psychopathology, the discovery of viruses, the discovery of vitamins, and the recognition of genetic disorders such as Down's syndrome. Existing historical discussions of research in these areas, for example, histories of work on the deficiencies diseases, take the view that success in bacteriology was a positive obstacle to the identification of causes for other kinds of diseases. Treating the quest for causes as a single coherent research programme provides a better understanding of the disease concepts that characterise the last 150 years of medical thought.

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