Health Conditions A-z
In the 18th edition you find ample materials on pathogens, even a chapter on the human microbiome , a chapter on women’s health, but no definition of health. Overall, one gets the impression that medicine deals with disease and not health. In a current meeting, certainly one of my colleagues said that the US National Institutes of Health should accurately be referred to as National Institutes of Diseases reflecting this illness focus of medical analysis. Health is currently fashionable as ‘Global Health’, however again scientists working at institutes referred to as like this or in such programmes deal principally with …
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