ENGB52H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Main Source, Cesspit, Peter Benchley
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Feb 14: literature as chemistry the experimental novel by emile zola. Medicine as an art and a science. Helps us understand the causes of psychological and emotional phenomena. The experimental method is the only way to discover these interactions between inanimate objects and living bodies. Object of medical science is to study disease. Man should be studied in life and health which are based on the influences on the body: medical art aims to restore and maintain health. There is an art of tending to the sick and it has a long history, the scientific basis of medicine is recent: physicians are advised to understand the patient as a person. Founded the idea of le miley interieur: the human body"s internal environment, now it"s called homeostasis. It"s not enough for sciences to predict the occurrence of phenomenon, but to explore them to understand how they are caused and how they can be manipulated and controlled.
