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L.S.K.

JAMA. 1970;212(10):1699-1700.

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Today technology is dominating medicine, and physicians, who once stood high among the intellectual leaders of society, are becoming technologists. They can manipulate apparatus, often wonderfully complex, but they are losing contact with the cultural aspects of our times. And with this separation from the humanistic currents, they are losing status among educated men. The physician must, indeed, keep up with medical progress, but if he restricts his reading to strictly medical topics, he makes himself all the more a technician and all the less an educated physician.

A widely read medical journal must make its readers aware of books that are relevant to medicine. But what is relevance? Our activist medical students understand the word in a sense rather different from that of a generation ago. And perhaps the same broader extension applies to books. Certainly, books on medicine and surgery, pathology and physiology, psychiatry and neurology are unquestionably . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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