Lundi 5 novembre 2012 : Individualized medicine, old and new : a historical perspective

Some present-day advocates of individualized, genome-based medicine have argued that its roots are to be found already in ancient Hippocratic medicine. As a historian of pre-modern medical cultures, I will examine this claim and show to what extent we can say that individualized care is indeed a distinctive feature of pre-modern medicine (meant both as a set of practices and as an intellectual tradition). I will also suggest that this topic would much benefit from being discussed in a conversation across disciplinary boundaries by physicians and medical scientists, on one side, and historians and anthropologists of medical cultures, on the other.

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