Abstract:When there is mention of "scientific medicine" in the historical literature, it is mostly used as a generic term describing virtually all forms of (mod ern) science-based medicine before the age of biomedicine. What is there by obscured, as I will demonstrate in this chapter and the next, is that the German version -wissenschaftliche Medicin -as well as the English rendering each indicated very specific and historically bounded programs. I pointed out in the introduction that especially for English-speaking hi… Show more
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