During the nineteenth century, modern medicine was established. ‘Man’ (the nineteenth-century term) was studied using dissection, physical investigations and medical examinations. Throughout the twentieth century there were challenges to some of the underlying assumptions of biomedicine which emphasized an increasing... Read more
When a patient is first admitted to hospital, a standard series of questions, investigations, and results relating to their physical examination is recorded in the medical notes. This is known as ‘medical clerking’ and is essentially the story (history) of... Read more