Colonic Diseases (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)

The Scientification of Gastroenterology During the 20th Century * Science contributes to medicine in three ways: It provides a body of relatively secure knowl edge. Some of that knowledge has been applied to develop technologies which have had a major impact upon the practice and effectiveness of medicine. Last, science offers to medicine a way of thinking. - 1. McCormick [(1993) The Contribution of Science to Medicine. Perspect. Bioi. Med. 16,315.] Awareness of the digestive system began with the dawn of civilization, when man, observing the feeding habits of animals in the surrounding environment, experimented with foods, edible and inedible. Identity came with discoveries of the digestive organs during the 16th and 17th centuries. Function was revealed by physiologic studies of digestion, absorp tion and secretion, metabolism, and motility during the 18th and 19th centuries. Diagnostic access improved with the technological advances of the 20th century. Understanding of gas trointestinal (GI) disease followed the growth of the basic sciences and gastroenterology's involvement in scientific research during the latter half of the 20th century. Early in the 20th century, gastroenterology was yet an undefined activity without clinical or scientific guidelines. Diagnostic approach to the digestive tract was minimal. Valid con cepts of disease were lacking. Visceroptosis, sitophobia, and "colonic autointoxication" were common "diagnoses." Therapeutic resources were scarce.

General

Imprint:	HumanaPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	2003
Editors:	Timothy R. Koch
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	556
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
ISBN-13:	978-1-4684-9740-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gastroenterology
LSN:	1-4684-9740-5
Barcode:	9781468497403

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