Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række
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Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. · Oct 1993
Historical Article[Hybris and crisis. The 19th century and transition to modern medicine].
Medicine declared itself to be a scientific discipline in the 19th century, and radically cut off its former links with the Hippocratic-Galenic tradition after the French Revolution in 1789. Owing to the great progress made in physics and chemistry, these disciplines came to be regarded as the only ones capable of solving medical problems. ⋯ It was believed that medicine and science could solve all the world's problems, a belief that, in modern times, has been abandoned as invalid. We now need a new medical anthropology, or rather medicine that is anthropological in its thinking.
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External cephalic version of the breech presentation has long traditions. Earlier this was practised to improve the baby's prognosis. Today most breech presentations are delivered by Caesarean section, and external cephalic version of the breech presentation is done to reduce the number of Caesarean sections. ⋯ If the breech deliveries are carefully selected at term, they become comparable with cephalic presentation, both in terms of mortality and morbidity. Although the complications associated with external cephalic version of the breech presentation are considered minimal they cannot be ruled out. Therefore systematic external cephalic version of the breech presentation should not be encouraged.