Post-modern Medicine

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  • Barros Veloso Director do Serviço de Medicina 1 do Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Lisboa

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Abstract

After refering to modernism and post-moder­nism as the great cultural universes that fullfil­ led the XXth century, the Author tries to demons­ trate that one can also talk about a modern and a post-modern Medicine. The first, born with the discovery of penicilin and sulphamides, is marked by a certain optimism, the growth of a powerfull pharmaceutical industry the height of Surgery and the birth of the Welfare-State. The hallmarks of the second are a general disillusion, the inva­sion of the new technologies, the progressive reduction of the weight of traditional Surgery and the colapse of the Welfare-State.

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1996-12-31

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Veloso B. Post-modern Medicine. RPMI [Internet]. 1996 Dec. 31 [cited 2024 Nov. 17];3(4):259-62. Available from: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/2309

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