title: [Hybris and crisis. The 19th century and transition to modern medicine].
abstract: Medicine declared itself to be a scientific discipline in the 19th century, and radically cut off its former links with the Hippocratic-Galenic tradition after the French Revolution in 1789. Owing to the great progress made in physics and chemistry, these disciplines came to be regarded as the only ones capable of solving medical problems. This is a reductionist view, in contrast to the vitalist view, which still believed in the existence of the Hippocratic physis or life force. Reductionist medicine led to great advances, though in the 19th century much of the wisdom of earlier times tended to be forgotten, to the detriment of medicine as a whole. It was believed that medicine and science could solve all the world's problems, a belief that, in modern times, has been abandoned as invalid. We now need a new medical anthropology, or rather medicine that is anthropological in its thinking.
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authors.lastname: Vatle
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends; D005602:France; D005858:Germany; D006666:History of Medicine; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D013038:Specialization; D006113:United Kingdom
vernacular_title: Hybris og krisis. Det 19. hundreåret og overgangen til moderne medisin.