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Gert H. Brieger's 'History Of Medicine, All That Matters'

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Today, medicine and science are inseparable. Each needs to other to be whole. It is pretty obvious how science depends on medicine because medicine is always needed in the society of human beings, and scientists are no exception. Medicine depends on science in ways of medical machines, new technologies and techniques that were developed through trial and error, and scientific knowledge. However, the link between science and medicine was not nearly as pronounced when each of the disciplines were first established.

Although earlier histories of medical technology, starting all the way from the Hippocratic times to the times of the Renaissance, often show separation and even tension between science and medicine, nevertheless emerging medical technologies brought the two fields together over time – so much so that the fields have appeared to merge in the creation of 20th - and 21st -century medical technologies. This is especially apparent in the case of x-ray technology and the visual technologies to which it gave rise, such as ultrasound, CT, MRI, PET, etc.

A lot of research has been dedicated to the link between medicine and science. In particular, Tim Hall's "History of Medicine, All that Matters", Gert H. Brieger's The History of Medicine and …show more content…

This time was symbolized with revolutionary inventions in radiology, microbiology, and biochemistry, which all had potential to be implemented in practical medicine. An article that illustrates this is the review by Steve Blevins and Michael Bronze that they have dedicated to the "Father of Clinical Microbiology" Robert Koch. The review named "Robert Koch and the Golden Age of Bacteriology", as well as Stanley Joel Reiser's "Medicine and the Reign of Technology" closely studies how Koch's discoveries of the direct relations of diseases and specific infectious agents have introduced principles of lab bacteriology into clinical

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