Problém retrospektivní diagnostiky v dějinách lékařství

• Authors: Cerny Karel

Title variants

EN

PROBLEM OF RETROSPECTIVE DIAGNOSIS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper was intended to be an introductory exposition for workshop about acceptability of a retrospective diagnosis. It deals with various methods used in the history of medicine, and with problems which are related to them. In the beginning it describes shortly development in the medical historiography that took place during the last three decades. It emphasizes those approaches which have not been discussed in the Czech ambient so far. The paper focuses above all on methods suggested by Jon Arrizabalaga, Giorgio Cosmacini, and Roy Porter. In other words it describes socio-constructivistic history of medicine and medicine that is seen using 'patient's view'. In the second part the paper describes how relativity in the modern approach affects the most basic terms of medicine: health, healing, illness, disease, etc. The aim is to show that once we leave secure area of institutional history or medical biographies we face a whole lot of serious obstacles.

Keywords

EN

DIAGNOSIS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Society for the History of Sciences and Technology, Czech Republic
• Journal: DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 145-154
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cerny Karel

• K. Cerny, Ustav dejin lekarstvi a cizich jazyku 1. LF UK v Praze, Katerinska 32, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA062620