Welcome to the New Age. Claude Bernard's “Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine” and the Shift of Medical Thought Towards Science: 150 Years Later

For most members of the medical community, the year of 2015 was an important one, although for reasons very few may recall. In 1865, Claude Bernard (1) would publish his ground-breaking work ‘An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine’. This was not just another chapter in the book of 19th-century medical inventions and discoveries, but while reflecting on his extensive laboratory life he foregrounded a new epistemology and philosophy of medicine (see, for example, (2)) T he notion of scientific revolution (3) may rightly seem obsolete for most historians of science by now (4), yet Bernard's contribution was an indisputable turning point in the medical thinking.
Source: Archives of Medical Research - Category: Research Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research