Non-pathology: The Bedrock of Pathology

Pathology, also called morbid anatomy, is macroscopically, microscopically, and molecularly so manifest an array of phenomena that it has compelled medical men to closely link it up with disease, dis-ease, and death. But there is more than meets the eye of the morbid anatomists, microscopists, and t...

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Published inJournal of postgraduate medicine (Bombay) Vol. 46; no. 2
Main Author Kothari MVL, Mehta LA, Kothari VM
Format Journal Article
Published India Medknow Publications and Staff Society of Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India 07.03.2003
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Summary:Pathology, also called morbid anatomy, is macroscopically, microscopically, and molecularly so manifest an array of phenomena that it has compelled medical men to closely link it up with disease, dis-ease, and death. But there is more than meets the eye of the morbid anatomists, microscopists, and the molecular biologists. The obvious science of pathology is governed by numerous abstract, subtle, non-pathological factors. A pathological phenomenon is subservient to cosmic noumenon. Such a sea-change allows a newer perspective that cures modern medicine of many of its dogmas and provides epistemologically valid directions to research methodologies on the one hand and clinical practices on the other.
ISSN:0022-3859