Patients Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/patients/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:53:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 The patient: from neglected factor to media star https://bshm.org.uk/the-patient-from-neglected-factor-to-media-vstar/ https://bshm.org.uk/the-patient-from-neglected-factor-to-media-vstar/#respond Sun, 18 Apr 2021 14:25:43 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=12407 Is the patient a case, a body or a partner with power? Christine Gowing looks at the changing perspective in medical history. In 1945 the patient voice was merely a distant echo. That year the medical historian Douglas Guthrie published a paper The Patient: a neglected factor in the history of medicine[1], arguing that the […]

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