Infuriating tensions: science and the medical student

JM Bishop - Academic Medicine, 1984 - journals.lww.com
JM Bishop
Academic Medicine, 1984journals.lww.com
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Michael Bishop, MD “Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe
that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have
invented will be beyond his strength to control.” This is from a letter by Henry Adams written
in 1862. “The medical establishment has be- come a major threat to health,” Illich says in his
critique of modern medicine (1). 4 . many recent contributions . . . have made the principles of …
“Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control.” This is from a letter by Henry
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