Organ medicine

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By the term organ medicine of medicine is to be understood in accordance with a conventional medical training the part that especially at the classic scientifically oriented pathology of the pathology was aligned. However, organic diseases with detectable anatomical changes are e.g. B. opposed to the functional diseases , which express themselves only in the disturbance of the function of one or more organs without recognizable causal patho-anatomical basis.

History of medicine

The frequently used term “organ medicine” has often been used controversially, depending on the different attitudes, and sometimes still reflects the ideological disputes between psychics and somatics today . The well-known statement by Rudolf Virchow that he has already dissected many corpses without ever finding a soul speaks in favor of the concept of “body without soul” . Virchow was an opponent of the generally accepted view of psychics at the time, but this statement should by no means only be seen as an expression of an ideology of the machine paradigm. Rather, one can recognize in Virchow the founder and representative of social medicine who saw cellular pathology as the starting point for his corresponding political demands.

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  1. ↑ Organic diseases. In: Willibald Pschyrembel : Clinical Dictionary . Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1964, p. 633.
  2. ↑ Thure von Uexküll et al. (Ed.): Psychosomatic Medicine. 3. Edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-541-08843-5 , p. 4.
  3. ↑ Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht : Rudolf Virchow. Doctor, politician, anthropologist. Stuttgart 1957, p. 36, 139.
  4. ^ Klaus Dörner : Citizens and Irre . On the social history and sociology of science in psychiatry. Books of knowledge. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-436-02101-6 , pp. 307 f., 311, 313, 328.
  5. ^ Wolfgang Jacob : Medical anthropology in the 19th century. People, nature, society. Contribution to a theoretical pathology. On the intellectual history of social medicine and Virchow's general pathology. Enke, Stuttgart 1967 Jacob, after Dörner, tries again to show Ackerknecht that Virchow agrees with the idealistic tradition of German medicine.
  6. ^ Rudolf Virchow : The need in the Spessart . News about the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia. (1847/48) Scientific. Book Society, Darmstadt 1968.

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