Medicine Before the Flexner Report: How Sects-y is too Sects-y?
Description
While the transition from sectarian to allopathic medicine was almost entirely beneficial due to our perceived value in the type of evidence and transparency that science provides, key values within sectarian practice were lost in this transition. Attention to these values helps us better understand the role and treatment of patients in modern medicine. Modern scientific physicians have proven the inefficacy of sectarian treatments by scientific practices, but the efficacy of exact sectarian remedies may not have bearing on the importance of sectarian values. These values were: medical simplicity, harmlessness in treatment, independence from physicians and accessibility of treatment. A more in-depth analysis of sectarian values allows us to understand that while the values of allopathic medicine have become ubiquitous, it has not always been that way. It is time to consider the validity in the sectarian values we have abandoned; this analysis was one of many on medicine's imminent developmental horizon. This realization allows us to call into question the importance of our current practicing values, and the necessity that they continue to stand alone.
Date Created
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2017-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Ayala, Erik Richard
- Thesis director: Brian, Jennifer
- Committee member: Ross, Christian
- Contributor (ctb): Department of Psychology
- Contributor (ctb): School of Life Sciences
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College