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Overheated news of a ‘medical breakthrough’
Author(s) -
Silverman William A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
paediatric and perinatal epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.667
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1365-3016
pISSN - 0269-5022
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2000.00243.x
Subject(s) - novelty , medicine , shock (circulatory) , constant (computer programming) , epistemology , aesthetics , social psychology , computer science , psychology , philosophy , programming language
Medicine pays almost exclusive homage to the shock of the new. We place a constant emphasis on novelty. We trumpet the most recent discoveries and give far too little attention to the concepts underlying our accumulated knowledge. Ours is an era of the instantaneous and immediate fact, a time when traditions are dissolving and the perceived need for a dialogue with the past is all but invisible. Richard Horton 1