Abstracts fra Bibliotek for Læger 4/2003

 

TEMA: OM FORTID, FREMSKRIDT OG VIRKELIGE LÆGER

 

Posthume forsvar og historiske angreb. Medicinhistorie mellem fortid og fremtid.

Lars Ole Andersen, Søren Bak-Jensen, Lene Otto & Thomas Söderqvist

 

Mellem sundhed og sygdom. Om fortid, fremskridt og virkelige læger. En narrativ kulturanalyse.

Anne Leonora Blaakilde

 

Forholdet mellem medicinhistorie og kulturhistorie.

Lene Otto

 

Medicinhistoriske fortællinger.

Gerda Bonderup

 

Da videnskabskrigen kom til Danmark: Den medicinske virkelighed kontra den humanistiske relativisme.

Albert Gjedde

 

Fortællinger om læger og fortællinger om alderdom.

Henning Kirk

 

Et forsøg på at indkredse den narrative kulturanalyse.

Anne Leonora Blaakilde

 

Når antiessentialisme forvandles til essens.

Mads Mordhorst

 

Den nationale begrænsning.

Thomas Söderqvist

 

Ultralyddiagnostik i Danmark – en historisk oversigt.

Jørgen Jørgensen:

Diagnostic ultrasound in Denmark – a historical survey.

Bibl Læger 2003; 195: 277–307.

In November 1965, Hans Henrik Holm began his research on diagnostic ultrasound at Gentofte County Hospital’s urological department. It was the beginning of a prosperous period in Danish ultrasound diagnostics. Holm created an ultrasound laboratory together with enthusiastic collegues, known as the »Gentofte Group«. The cooperation with the Danish Welding Centre led to the development and production of diagnostic ultrasound equipment which set the standard until 1980. Later the electronics company Brüel & Kjær, today B-K Medical, produced and marketed this equipment. Holm and his collegues made many international contacts, and their work and research secured that Danish ultrasound diagnostics was internationally known and respected. A position which is confirmed by the fact that the laboratory in Gentofte and later in Herlev received many visitors, and had exchange programs with foreign laboratories.

The Danish Association of Ultrasound Diagnostics was founded on February 1, 1974, chaired by Hans Henrik Holm. The association is affiliated with the international associations and has arranged numerous conventions in Copenhagen. Also, the association has been in charge of many seminars. In the beginning, the development of diagnostic ultrasound at the clinical departments was conducted in close cooperation with the Gentofte Group. Later on as the method was spread to other hospitals, research on and development of clinical application became independent fields of considerable importance, also in comparison with international research, first and foremost in cardiology, obstetrics and ophthalmology.

 

Anatomi for læger og teologer.

Morten Fink Jensen:

Anatomy for doctors and theologians

in 16th and 17th century Denmark.

Bibl Læger 2003; 195: 308–20.

Teaching in anatomy at the University of Copenhagen during the first hundred years after the Reformation in 1536, was not only centred on theories of medicine. Anatomy was also seen in context of a broader religious view of the world where the combined arts and sciences were supposed to aid the consolidation of the Lutheran Reformation. This is clearly stated in the charter of the University of Copenhagen dating from 1539 where it is stressed that anatomy is important not only for students of medicine, but for all students, most of whom were students of theology. This is because the study of anatomy was expected to impress on the observer the idea of God’s providence and omnipotence.

These ideas were a key element in Lutheran universities in the 16th century, and they are closely connected to the German reformer Philip Melanchton’s strategy of using science and medicine to elucidate the truth of Protestant theology. The influence of Melanchton in the teaching of anatomy in Copenhagen can be seen also in the early 17th century where his book “On the Soul” formed the backbone of the teaching in subjects such as medicine and physics. Anatomy was, however, taught without the use of human cadavers. At best anatomical drawings were included. There is no record of dissections being carried out at the University of Copenhagen before 1645 when the “Domus Anatomica” was erected. The lack of proper facilities surely halted attempts at carrying out dissections prior to that year, but the theological foundation of the study of anatomy in Denmark up until this point is probably a major part of the explanation too. For anatomy perceived as a semi-theological field of study concentrated more on the broader idea of Man as the mirror of the Creator and the implications of a sinful living on bodily and mental health. The techniques and findings of the trained anatomist were not seen as quite so urgent compared to the question of the salvation of the soul.

 

Forsidebillede: Den danske ultralydspionér, professor Hans Henrik Holm.