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Clinical pharmacology: Reflections in my rear‐view mirror
Author(s) -
Modell Walter
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt1978235497
Subject(s) - specialty , field (mathematics) , engineering ethics , wish , epistemology , work (physics) , psychology , sociology , engineering , philosophy , psychiatry , mathematics , mechanical engineering , anthropology , pure mathematics
To be self‐propelling, a scientific discipline in medicine needs a concept, a philosophy, a special field of operation, and then a group of scientists who wish to devote themselves to such work, to communicate, discuss, report, argue, and freely exchange ideas—in short, a learned society; finally, it needs a specialty journal which published accounts of investigations, not merely for archival purposes, but to further intercourse between all scientists so as to spread the word to workers in other places and in other fields. The three may evolve serially but progress in all is facilitated by simultaneous development and operation.