PubMed Health⌕ Search
Home/Archive/PubMed

PubMed · 11209554

[Does internal medicine still survive?].

C Perezagua Clamagirand
View original source ↗Export metadata ↓

Abstract

The author suggest in his lecture in the present of the well versed Royal Academy National of Medicine, the concept, current situation and future of Internal Medicine. After a brief explanation of its creation and development, in several european and north american medical schools, he analyzes the present situation of Internal Medicine coming to the conclusion that, as a result of the fragmentation of medicine into countless sub-specialties, its survival is even being questioned as a medical specialty itself.

Explore related subjects

History, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyHumansInternal MedicinePathology, ClinicalSpainAddressHistorical Article

Keep this discovery

Explore connections, maps & timelines

BibTeXRIS

C Perezagua Clamagirand. 2000. [Does internal medicine still survive?].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11209554/

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related citations

PubMed2007

Schizophrenia as split personality/Jekyll and Hyde: the origins of the informal usage in the English language.

The entry into the English language of the informal usage of schizophrenia as split personality/Jekyll and Hyde is traced and commented upon. The metaphor of split personality is followed from Eugene Bleuler via his translators and the wider psychiatric community into the present day. It, and to a lesser extent the Jekyll-Hyde personality, is found to be as much a product of the psychological professions as a product of lay misinterpretation. The informal definition of schizophrenia as split personality has outlived the scientific theory with which it was initially associated.

History, 19th Century↗
PubMed2007

["Hypermetamorphosis". Heinrich Neumann's (1814-1884) legacy].

The term "hypermetamorphosis" was originally coined in 1859 by an almost forgotten psychiatrist from Breslau, now Wroclaw in Poland, Heinrich Wilhelm Neumann. The 1906 textbook of his assistant Wernicke transmitted the concept to Klüver and Bucy, who understood it as the "excessive tendency to take notice of and to attend and react to every visual stimulus" in their syndrome description of bitemporal lobectomy in the monkey (1937-1939). Hypermetamorphosis so far has not been properly operationalized, and the concept appears outdated. Components such as "compulsive manipulation", "magnet reaction/groping", "compulsive grasping/grasp reflex", "utilization behavior", and "environmental dependency syndrome" can be better delineated and are commonly seen in frontal rather than temporal lesions. They may occur with frontal contusion, anterior cerebral artery infarction, in diseases of the Pick complex, and basal ganglia neurodegeneration.

History, 19th Century↗