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Document Type : Article In Journal 
Document Title :
Comparative medicine in the twenty-first century: where are we now and where do we go from here?
Comparative medicine in the twenty-first century: where are we now and where do we go from here?
 
Document Language : English 
Abstract : “Comparative Medicine” may be defined as a field of study concentrating on similarities and differences between veterinary medicine and human medicine. However, this is a redundant definition that needs to be updated, modernized, and refined. The nineteenth century German physician Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow, widely known as the “Father of Modern Pathology” and the founder of the science of veterinary pathology wrote: Between animal and human and medicine, there is no dividing line – nor should there be. The object is different, but the experience obtained constitutes the basis of all medicine. In his 1927 paper entitled “What is Comparative Medicine?” published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (1), O. Charnock Bradley defined “Comparative Medicine” as two branches of “One Medicine.” He wrote: Inasmuch as it includes the study of disease in a considerable number of animals belonging to widely different species, there is some ground for regarding veterinary medicine as being comparative medicine. But this is held to be too narrow an application of the term. Clearly, even by the late 1920s the definition of “Comparative Medicine” was considered too narrow and inadequate. Bradley went further by proposing: Human and veterinary medicine are confronted with similar problems and employ similar means for their solution; and, taken together, they deal with a large group of animals sufficient to justify the contention that they are two branches of one medicine. 
ISSN : 2297-1769 
Journal Name : Frontiers in Veterinary Science 
Volume : 2 
Issue Number : 2 
Publishing Year : 1436 AH
2015 AD 
Article Type : Article 
Added Date : Monday, April 25, 2016 

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Ali MobasheriMobasheri, Ali Investigator a.mobasheri@surrey.ac.uk

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