Recent advances in medical science : a study of their social and economic implications / by Sir Edward Mellanby.

  • Mellanby, Edward, Sir, 1884-1955.
Date:
1939
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    Recent Advances in Medical Science A Study of their Social and Economic Implications Probably at no time in the world’s history has the average citizen of this and of most other civihsed communities felt so insecure against death by violence. At no time in the world’s history has the same citizen had reason to feel so secure against death by disease. The cause of the first of these outlooks fills us with despair: the cause of the second gives us great satisfaction. It seemed opportune, therefore, that this year’s Robert Rede lecture should be devoted to an account of certain of man’s activities which have formed the basis of his present-day sense of security of health. It may be possible by this means, at a time when many are doubting whether sanity and righteousness occupy the dominant place usually ascribed to them, to restore to their minds a firmer belief in the power of the human intellect to guide their destiny. If war and present-day national policy in many countries are based on the assumption that human life is nothing, except in so far as it contributes to national power, the basis of my discourse to-day is different, namely, that human life and health, developed and enjoyed to