Contemporary medicine is closely based around technological development: medical practices have become mediatised as a result of the creation of instruments, techniques and architectural spaces that have transformed the phenomenon of health and illness, and which have adapted ways of understanding medicine, thus creating a new knowledge, language and experts. Why is it desirable to know about the context of medicine’s material culture? What reflection does this knowledge grant to the young doctor or the student of medicine?
Cycle: Humanist Doctors? Medicine in society for the 20th Century
Organized by: Museum of the History of Medicine of Catalonia, Residence for Researchers, Barcelona Physicians’ Association.
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