![]() The books below all grapple with these issues. I got interested in the history of medicine because I wanted to understand the dynamic, complicated, emotional, and often unspoken relationship between science, culture, and politics. ![]() Bodies are subject to law, culture, desire, politics, and more. The maintenance of bodies always intersects with other, bigger questions. I don’t think that’s quite true because our bodies are more than machines, they’re how we experience the world. The history of medicine therefore touches on a lot more than the facts of anatomy and physiology. ![]() A friend of mine, in his third of fourth year of med school at the time, once told me that doctors are just highly paid mechanics.
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