TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe hygienic exhibit and its lessons
Y1  - 2012/10/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.3240
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1302
EP  - 1302
VL  - 308
IS  - 13
N2  - 
In former generations, the relations between physician and patient were almost entirely individual. Only with the development of modern medicine has either the individual physician or the combined profession attained a distinct social function and responsibility. In former generations, owing to meager knowledge of diseases and their causes, the social responsibility for a large share of humanity's ills was not recognized. To-day, as soon as science discovers the cause of a disease, its method of transmission and the means for its prevention, the disease ceases to be a problem from a scientific point of view. It then becomes an additional social responsibility, since, in the majority of cases, our recently acquired knowledge shows that preventable diseases exist largely because of social sins, and that their prevention involves the reformation of some long-standing evil.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.3240
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.3240
ER  -