When Medicine Is Powerless
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15744348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Laqueur (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1088-1091 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The AMA Journal of Ethic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2376-6980 • E-ISSN: 2376-6980 |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1001/virtualmentor.2013.15.12.mhst1-1312 |
| PMID | 24331452 |
| OpenAlex | W605768257 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
An 1897 painting by the 16-year-old Pablo Picasso—Reason and Charity—illustrates the oft-perceived epistemological divide between comforting patients and treating them. In the corner stands a nun holding a child in one arm and offering the patient a drink; in the foreground sits a doctor taking the patient’s pulse and looking at his watch. Physiology is the domain of reason; care the domain of charity. Of course the contrast is overblown, but by then it had already been commonly felt for some time
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Contrast (vision · Domain (mathematical analysis · Painting · PICASSO · Psychoanalysis · Computer Science · History of Medicine Studies · Medicine, History, and Philosophy · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |