Social medicine

Medicine, of course, was never monolithic, and well into our own century renewed challenges to reductive orthodoxy have appeared, even within mainstream conventional medicine constitutionalism, psychosomatic medicine, neo-Hippocratic medicine, neo-humoralism, social medicine, Catholic humanism, and, in Europe, homeopathy and naturopathy (Lawrence... 

Marcia Angell, physician, former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, and senior lecturer in the department of social medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has been a vocal critic of the pharmaceutical industry, arguing that the companies focus on profits at the expense of health, manipulate scientific research, and deceive the public with their advertising. She has also criticized physicians and researchers for their close ties to the drug industry and potential lack of independence in their research. 

Goulle, J. R, Noyon, J., and Leroux, R, Nicotine in hair and passive exposure in pediatric pathology, presented at the 16th Congress of the Int. Academy of Legal Medicine and Social Medicine, Strasbourg, May 31 to June 2,1994. 

For a complete discussion of Farr s zymotic theory, see John M. Eyler, Victorian Social Medicine The Ideas and Methods of William Farr (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), pp. 97-122. 

The passage of the newly proposed health-care bill for the elderly will lead to socialized medicine in this country. 

Whether healthcare is run as a business or as state or social medicine, the business aspects of the Internet have been important for establishing and demonstrating the potential of the Internet as a powerful tool for healthcare and medical practice. Patient record aspects of the medical business will be discussed in the next chapter. Developments in other businesses on the Internet have helped drive new technologies, the widening reach of the Internet with a rise in the number and power of servers (Internet-service-provider computers), improved security, and wide home acceptance of the Internet. 

With US states spending so much less on patient treatment than countries with social medicine, there is a great deal more money to be spent on medical research (though some may say not always wisely). Still very sophisticated medical treatments are available, at least for those who can afford them. This medical research includes much of the aspects of molecular science and some aspects of IT, which is growing and poising itself for use by the US healthcare systems. 

Ahrens W, Jockel KH, Patzak W, et al. 1991. Alcohol, smoking, and occupational factors in cancer of the larynx a case-control study. Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine, Federal Republic of Germany. Am J Ind Med 20(4) 477-493. 

Hebei JR, Kinch D, Armstrong E Mental capability of children exposed to lead pollution. British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine 30 170-174,1976 Holt LE Lead poisoning in infancy. American Journal of Diseases of Children 25 229-233, 1923... 

Despite his passionate interest in preventive medicine, RudolfVirchow, the foremost medical man of the day as well as a Reichstag deputy, opposed the measure.He did so because he realized that its aim was political, not medical. Bismarck hated Communism. He introduced socialized medicine into Germany to buy the loyalty of the German masses Bismarck adopted nationalistic socialism to end international socialism. ... [He] was the first leader of a... 

Social medicine—United States—Miscellanea. 2. Medical care—Political aspects—United States. 3. Medical ethics—United States. I. Title. RA418.3.U6S936 2001... 

The Italian Institute of Social Medicine Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale -IlMS)... 

The Italian Institute of Social Medicine (Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale IIMS) An advisory body, under the Mmistry of Labour, devoted to study and research regarding social diseases and prevention tools. 

Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine, University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Schiller-strasse 25/29, D-8520 Nurnberg, Germany... 

Michalke. R, and Daldrup, T. (1982). Freier und gebundener Antcil von p-Niirophenol in blut und urin nach E-605 intoxication. In Xllth Congress of the international Academy of Forensic and Social Medicine, pp. 427 30. Vienna. Austria. 

Milton I. Roemer, a professor of public health at the University of California at Los Angeles, extols "social medicine as the answer to all health problems. The importance of the hospital, he writes,... 

Milton I. Roenier, The future of social medicine in the United States, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha, 30 42-50 (April), 1967 p. 45. 

Timio, M, Gentili, S. (1976). Adrenosympathetic overactivity under conditions of work stress. British Journal ofPreventtve and Social Medicine, 30,262-265. 

Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 111 East 210th Street, Bronx, NY 10467 USA e-mail vsidel igc.org... 

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