"Die wissenschaftliche Ausbildung des Arztes ist eine Culturfrage..." - Über das Verhältnis von Wissenschaftsanspruch, Bildungsprogramm und Praxis der Medizin

Journal/Book: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 1988; II: 193-205.

Abstract: The article Shows that the elite, nationalistic and imperial mentality of German medicine in the second half of the nineteenth century was closely connected to its aim to be understood as a natural science. With this in view leading representatives of German medicine propagated a scientific approach to man and nature instead of the traditional values of humanistic education (Bildung). One of the most important consequences of the new scientific ideal in medicine - integration in governmental planning, the change in professional status of doctors, the increasing tendency to recognize biologistic ideologies -was the loss of the medical ideal of the ars medica, a subject which has not received sufficient thematic attention. This theme is explored in the third part of the article.

Keyword(s): Arztbild

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