The Impending Medical Revolution
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In an impressive review of the impact of molecular biology and genetics on medical thinking, Dr. Deryck Taverner makes the telling point that medicine, far from becoming more scientific in our day, is merely becoming more technological. He demonstrates the limitations of the concept of disease as an entity, and of the nonsense of dividing illness into the real and the imaginary: it is noteworthy that in looking at the phenomenon of illness from the ground of the biological science, he has come to conclusions very similar to those of Dr. Michael Balint and his followers, who have proceeded from the ground of psychoanalysis. The Impending Medical Revolution, the author envisages, is concerned largely with the redeployment of medical manpower, engineering equipment and hospital beds. It is the perspective of a humane and imaginative hospital scientist who is trying to harness the new technologies of industrial cost effectiveness to the explosive demand for medical care.
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