Keywords
Doctor-Patient Relationship
Abstract
This talk will outline the history of the doctor-patient relationship in the West. It will touch briefly on medicine in Greek and Roman antiquity, using key texts from Hippocrates and Galen. It will also sketch the changing balance of the religious and the secular in medieval medicine. Finally, it will outline the rise of the modern personal doctor-patient relationship in the 18th century and analyze the chronic dissatisfaction that settled over relations between doctors and patients in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Recommended Citation
Cole, Thoams R., "The Rise and Fall of the Doctor-Patient Relationship" (2012). Houston History of Medicine Lectures. 10.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/homl/10
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Comments
Transcript of a presentation given at the Houston History of Medicine Society lecture series.