Rethinking prevention in the biomedical era
Journal Title: Biomedicine & Prevention - Year 2016, Vol 2016, Issue 0
Abstract
In the Greek world Hygeia, the goddess of health and hygiene, was custodian of prevention. She was the daughter of Asclepius, who was said to have learned medical arts from the centaur Chiron, or directly from his father Apollo. Therefore, already at the dawn of medicine the art of preventing disease was in focus. Of course, much has changed in terms of our knowledge, technologies, diagnostic skills and scientific investigation. Yet it seems that this ancient bond between the medicine for healing and medicine for prevention should not be broken, but rather renewed and recreated in light of the medical culture of our time.
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Leonardo Palombi
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