Localism (medical history)
In medical history, localism describes a phase at the beginning of the 19th century when research focused on local changes in certain organs as the cause of disease. In particular, the development of cellular pathology is considered to be a breakthrough in the pathological-anatomical concept that promoted scientifically based medicine and, in particular, surgery.
The term has a different meaning in epidemiology : Epidemiologists were referred to as localists , who attached particular importance to the soil conditions for the spread of infectious diseases. A prominent representative was Max von Pettenkofer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilsemarie Walter: On the development of medical specialization in France in the 19th century (seminar paper 1999)
- ↑ Otto Dornblüth: Clinical Dictionary (13th / 14th edition) 1927
- ^ Gregor Raschke: Max von Pettenkofer's cholera theory in the crossfire of criticism - The cholera discussion and its participants. Medicine. Dissertation Munich 2007