Quotes About Medicine

Unwinding isn't just good medicine—it's the right idea." It was the very rightness of the idea that made Nelson become a Juvey-cop to begin with. The knowledge that he would leave the world a cleaner, brighter place by dredging the dregs from the streets was what propelled him into the police academy

subjected. In Discipline and Punish Foucault shows that alongside the maturation of the capitalist system of production the scientific location & elucidation of "the individual" (preeminently through the psy- and medical sciences) becomes an increasingly effective means of control & repression. Keeping tabs.

Medicine, psychology, criminology, sociology. Which treat bodies as machinery (passim Descartes, the "father" of our Western subject). Developing alongside the dirty sciences. Industrialization, Taylorization, automation.

the indigenous arsenal of cure.

So, a little morphine, a good sweat, and a bowel movement—the cure for everything that ails you.

The specific medicine for the shock of despair is the deeper shock of meaning.

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with everyday herbs.

She needed water, but it would take a tsunami to avert the hangover that awaited. She needed Advil, but she feared the red pills that she popped like M&M's at moments like this were distant. They were in the medicine bag in her own hotel room. In her own hotel.

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.

No one likes doing primate experiments, but some research can only be done on monkeys.

I can't speak for every woman, but my birth control is covered by my insurance, and if it weren't covered, it would cost $9 a month. I don't know a lot of women who can't afford $9 a month.

I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I was really into the body and how it could go wrong. I wanted to dig up bodies from the graveyard.

I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

Anyone who seeks to help others—whether by means of religion or by means of medicine—must eschew the use of force.

The fact that atomic energy is used in warfare does not make international conflicts problems in physics; likewise, the fact that the brain is used in human behavior does not make moral and personal conflicts problems in medicine.

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If the story you're reading is about health, there's one place you should be sure to look for a second opinion: the Cochrane Collaboration.

Doctors persisted with bloodletting for three hundred years after Van Helmont challenged them to prove that their technique worked. In

One of the first things a doctor learns is how not to sleep.

he'd learned that in the field of medicine, the really smart ones were the teachers, unlike the rest of society.