Hi guys, I have to give a presentation to my class.
What do you guys think are the 3 or 4 most significant advances in medicine?
What do you guys think are the 3 or 4 most significant advances in medicine?
Modern Sanitation
Aseptic Surgery (Lister)
Handwashing (Simmelweiss)
Anaesthesia
Antibiotics
I'd say CT/MRI, vaccines, and minimally invasive surgery (including robot-assisted).
Probably not the most significant, but up there.
Definitely not CT/MRI and minimally invasive surgery. These have saved relatively few lives. Antibiotics and vaccines save millions if not billions. Think about the fact that pertussis, measles etc. are rarely seen.
I'd say CT/MRI, vaccines, and minimally invasive surgery (including robot-assisted).
Probably not the most significant, but up there.
My revised ranking is
1. Public Sanitation, by not taking a dump where we drink there is less cholera
2. Vaccines, dramatic decrease of death in childhood
3. Antibiotics
4. Aseptic Surgery/Improved Obstetrics, decreased death in childbirth, no more infections
5. Anaesthesia It doesn't in and of itself save lives but anaesthesia and analgesia make surgery tolerable
+1modern sanitation
aseptic surgery (lister)
handwashing (simmelweiss)
anaesthesia
antibiotics
The first two on this list are more in the realm of public health than medicine.
The rise of agriculture was actually the largest tragedy human kind has ever suffered. Agriculture facilitated overpopulation, and the pseudo-nutrients provided by agriculture caused human stature and physical vigor to diminish once those nutrients were relied upon.
Lastly, and most importantly if you ask me, agriculture is the main reason humans went from being the best of the pack animals to a bunch of shaven ape hive workers.
Farming is the antichrist. If it had a face, I would most definitely punch it. Most importantly for the purposes of this topic though is that farming and animal domestication seriously diminished the robustness of humanity, and actually facilitated the rise of all of the major health problems that modern medicine has spent the last several hundred years attempting to cure.
Definitely agree. I wouldn't say that public sanitation, hand washing, and vaccination are in the realm of medicine. They belong to public health, not medicine, IMO. Medicine really deals with the individual, not a population.
You would like Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.The rise of agriculture was actually the largest tragedy human kind has ever suffered. Agriculture facilitated overpopulation, and the pseudo-nutrients provided by agriculture caused human stature and physical vigor to diminish once those nutrients were relied upon.
Lastly, and most importantly if you ask me, agriculture is the main reason humans went from being the best of the pack animals to a bunch of shaven ape hive workers.
Farming is the antichrist. If it had a face, I would most definitely punch it. Most importantly for the purposes of this topic though is that farming and animal domestication seriously diminished the robustness of humanity, and actually facilitated the rise of all of the major health problems that modern medicine has spent the last several hundred years attempting to cure.
The rise of agriculture was actually the largest tragedy human kind has ever suffered. Agriculture facilitated overpopulation, and the pseudo-nutrients provided by agriculture caused human stature and physical vigor to diminish once those nutrients were relied upon.
Lastly, and most importantly if you ask me, agriculture is the main reason humans went from being the best of the pack animals to a bunch of shaven ape hive workers.
Farming is the antichrist. If it had a face, I would most definitely punch it. Most importantly for the purposes of this topic though is that farming and animal domestication seriously diminished the robustness of humanity, and actually facilitated the rise of all of the major health problems that modern medicine has spent the last several hundred years attempting to cure.
head on, apply directly to the head.
1. Chuck Norris
2. Knowledge that Chuck Norris exists.
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Damn dude. I usually like your posts, but you lost me here. What proof do you have of the relative "robustness of humanity" of some pre-historical time and how do you quantify that it was objectively better? I think that you might need to set down your dog-eared copy of The Population Bomb and slowly step away..
Your avatar still cracks me up every time I see it.The most significant advance in medicine was the advent of SDN.
I think organ transplantation is one of medicine's greatest achievements.