Metzger N (2019)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2019
Book Volume: 76
Pages Range: 58-89
Journal Issue: 1
Discussing the alleged crisis of medicine (ca. 1925-33) German physicians addressed the underlying mindset of medical theory and practice. Identified as oscientific crisis, they called the scientific epistemology of medicine into question. Since 1911 modern constitutional medicine had offered concepts potentially useful to overcome this crisis. Besides similar topics the two discussions shared prominent voices, presenting their ideas for better medicine in both discourses. However, this paper shows the minor role constitutional medicine actually played in the crisis discussion. It was rarely put forward as a solution to the supposed crisis and is conspicuously often discovered in discussions of historical background. Far more often, concepts designed to overcome constitutional medicine are invoked as a potential crisis solution, first and foremost the so-called constitutional therapy fathered by Vienna gynaecologist Bernhard Aschner which evokes pre-modern humoral pathology.
APA:
Metzger, N. (2019). An Answer to the "Crisis of Medicine"? The Modern Constitution Theory in Crisis Discourse 1925-1933. Gesnerus, 76(1), 58-89.
MLA:
Metzger, Nadine. "An Answer to the "Crisis of Medicine"? The Modern Constitution Theory in Crisis Discourse 1925-1933." Gesnerus 76.1 (2019): 58-89.
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