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Dějiny medicíny jako dějiny vědy a vzdělanosti
History of Medicine as a History of Science and Education

Author(s): Petr Svobodný
Subject(s): History, History of ideas
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: medicine; education; science; teaching; therapeutic function; clinic; scholars; social history

Summary/Abstract: Using as his chief example the interdisciplinary area of history of medicine, the author presents various intersections and links common in current, up-to-date approaches to the history of education. Various functions of university clinics as subjects of interest to the historians of medicine of the Modern Era (eighteenth to twentieth century) can serve as a model of research in a number of areas. These include the history of education (clinical internships), history of science (clinical research), history of healthcare and social care (their therapeutic functions), history of professions (physicians, scientists, teachers), and the social role of scholars. In this way, the subject encompasses most areas belonging to a broadly conceived history of education.

  • Issue Year: 58/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 77-83
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Czech