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The rise and fall of modern medicine
A BMJ Book
Book • 2002
James Le Fanu chronicles the golden age of medicine from 1940 to 1980, highlighting ten definitive moments such as penicillin, cortisone, open-heart surgery, and organ transplants that transformed healthcare.
He argues that progress has stalled due to the exhaustion of serendipitous discoveries and the rise of top-down theories including the New Genetics and environmental/social causes of disease, which have distracted from practical advances and traditional clinical practice.
He argues that progress has stalled due to the exhaustion of serendipitous discoveries and the rise of top-down theories including the New Genetics and environmental/social causes of disease, which have distracted from practical advances and traditional clinical practice.
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