2008-10-07

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McIntire, C., 1894. The Importance of the Study of Medical Sociology, Bulletine of the American Academy of Medicine 1: 425-434

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Or again, the prevetntion of pauperism is a question of teh greatest importance. How to give to the worthy poor and enable them to retain their self-respect; how to prevent the unworthy or the miserly from being recipients of teh bounty of the charitable, are questions attracting attention on every hand. The free dispensaries of our land have in them possibilities of starting more peolple on the road to pauperism than any other agency on the one hand; and the ability to accomplish more real good in the alleviation of suffering on the other. If the philosophical study of the question can reduce the possibility to the minimum and elevate the ability to hte maximum, who can compute the importance of the results of such a study to hte medical practitioner or to hte country at large. The educational problem is one of far reaching influence for good or ill. The increase of scientific knowledge causes a greater demand to be made on the student; the general advance in the literary culture of the people necessitates a general higher training than formerly; the changes in the manner of living have weakened, possibly, the physical stamina. Ther proper adjustment of hours and subjects to enable the pupil to properly develop his mind without a prodigal expenditure of his vital energy, whereby his body is made to suffer; the use of manual training schools, and of physical education, and other problems of the educator involve questions that can only be solved by physicians; and should be discussed from a purely medical standpoint before they are rendered more complex by the other factors which the teacher must take into consideration. And on the proper solution of these questions much of the future welfare of the nation depends.

There are other questions, some of more, others of less importance, but the specific instances given already, open imortant fields of study wide enough to keep us employed for some time to come, hence they will suffice for the present purpose.

There may be a possible criticism in the thoughts of some that should be noticed before closing. “The themes are all right in their way,” you may be thinking, “and interesting enough, doubtless, possibly even important; but they are not practical and, therefore, not worthy the attention of serious men in this serious life of ours.” This criticism is a just one if, and please mark the “if,” if you put the definition of practical on low enough a plane. If you think the time given to the study of pathology wasted and had better be devoted to committing to memory “favorite presciptions;” if, when any new remedy is mentioned, ou do not waste your practical mind on its composition, properties or mode of action, but simply ask: “What is it good for?” and, “What is the dose?” if you savor at all of what our friend, the talented editor of the American Lancet has so fitly characterized as the G.T.R―Get There Regardless―Doctor; I grant you that these themes have little of such practicability in them. But if you are built after a different pattern and give to the word its true siginificance: to achieve rather than to accomplish. If you understand in medicine that is practical which tends to produce the best, the noblest physician; the most accurate knowledge of cause and condition of the sick and the precise action of the remedy to cure; the greatest ability to prevent the ills of flesh; the development of the highest type of manhood, and the fruit this type should bear; then, while the study of these problems, their presentation and publication may not bring you a single consultation nor add a single dollar to your not too large bank account, you will find in them topics intensely practical. There is the ’ανηρ， and the ’ανθρωποζ； the homo, and the vir; the Mensch, and the Mann; the former will care for none of these things; the latter will unite with us in their study(1).

DISCUSSION.

Dr. Leartus Connor, of Detroit, in opening the discussion, desired to disclaim the authorship of the phrase, “G.T.R. Doctor,” the editorial