Medicine man

Medicine man

An exhibition at the British Museum shows off some of the vast collection of objects collected by Henry Wellcome, marking the 150 anniversary of his birth. Wellcome was someone who recognized the importance of scientific research in developing new medicines and who established the first research laboratory linked to a UK pharmaceutical company. His pioneering activities have proved to be an eno...

Man, Medicine and Morality

?.. leaving the reader to form ^is own opinions'. So scrupulous he been, however, in avoiding lhe intrusion of his own prejudices, 'hat much of the sharpness of contemporary debate is blunted by the reasonableness of the exposition. The author ranges widely in his ?PProach but it was disappointing the passages dealing with conception, sterilisation and termination of pregnancy, that while he le...

The medicine man.

The loud knock at the door woke me from a deep sleep. It wasn’t easy for me to get out of my warm sleeping bag that cold night to answer. It was December 1991, and I was living in a town called Diyana in northern Iraq, working with a medical aid organization following the Persian Gulf War. I shared a room with my driver and translator. He told me that the people shouting and gesturing frantical...

Man, the object of medicine.

Man and medicine: a history

methodology, and indeed a part of their radiance comes from Davidson's reinterpretation of Foucault's works of his "middle period", best contained in Les mots et les choses and L'Arche'ologie du savoir. Davidson shows the similarity and difference between Canguilhem's and Foucault's projects better than any other Anglophone commentator, and he relates all these theoretical insights back to the ...