Abstract
The concept of medicine is defined with “art” as its proximate genus in one of the two most eminent – “authoritative” – English-language dictionaries of medicine, but with “art and science” in this role in the other; and as the specific differences within these genera the two dictionaries give the respective concerns, “preventing or curing disease” and “the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health” [20]. The I.E.A. dictionary [4] leaves medicine undefined.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
Porta M (Editor), Greenland S, Last JM (Associate Editors). A Dictionary of Epidemiology. Fifth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Miettinen OS, Flegel KM. Elementary concepts of medicine: VI. Genesis of illness: pathogenesis, aetiogenesis. J Eval Clin Pract 2003; 9: 325-7.
Miettinen OS, Flegel KM. Elementary concepts of medicine: III. Illness: somatic anomaly with ... J Eval Clin Pract 2003; 315-7.
Miettinen OS, Flegel KM. Elementary concepts of medicine: V. Disease: one of the main subtypes of illness. J Eval Clin Pract 2003; 9: 321-3.
Miettinen OS. Theoretical Epidemiology. Principles of Occurrence Research in Medicine. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
Miettinen OS. Up from Clinical Epidemiology & EBM. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011.
Miettinen OS. The modern scientific physician: 2. Medical science versus scientific medicine. CMAJ 2001; 165: 591-2.
Miettinen OS, Flegel KM. Elementary concepts of medicine: I. Medicine: challenges with its concepts. J Eval Clin Pract 2003; 9: 307-9.
Miettinen OS. The modern scientific physician: 1. Can practice be science? CMAJ 2001; 165: 441-2.
Wertz G. Divide and Conquer. A Comparative History of Medical Specialization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Steurer J, Bachmann LM, Miettinen OS. Etiology in a taxonomy of illnesses. Eur J Epidemiol 2006; 21: 85-9.
Miettinen OS. Proportion of disease caused or prevented by a given exposure, trait or intervention. Am J Epidemiol 1974; 99: 325-32.
Miettinen OS. Evidence in medicine: invited commentary. CMAJ 1998; 158: 215-21.
Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA 1992; 268: 2420-5.
Sackett DL, Straus SE, Richardson WS, et alii. Evidence-Based Medicine. How to Practice and Teach EBM. Second edition. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2000.
Miettinen OS, Caro JJ. Foundations of medical diagnosis: What actually are the parameters involved in Bayes’ theorem? Statist Med 1994; 13: 201-9
Miettinen OS, Flegel KM. Elementary concepts of medicine: IV. Sickness from illness and in health. J Eval Clin Pract 2003; 9: 319-20.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Miettinen, O.S. (2011). Terms and Concepts of Medicine. In: Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1171-6_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1171-6_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-1170-9
Online ISBN: 978-94-007-1171-6
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)