The Hippocratic Oath is popularly imagined as starting with, or no less than involving, the command “First, do no hurt.” Actually, nothing prefer it seems among the many unique Greek phrases attributed to Hippocrates; the Latin phrase primum non nocere appears to have been added within the seventh century. However the precept makes a extremely appropriate start line for Dominic Walliman’s video tour above of his new Complete Map of Medication. A physicist and science author, Walliman has beforehand been featured many instances right here on Open Tradition for his Youtube channel Area of Science and his maps of different fields, from physics, chemistry, and biology to arithmetic, engineering, and laptop science.
This new map marks a return after what, to Walliman’s followers, felt like a protracted hiatus certainly. The extended absence speaks to the ambition of the mission, whose topic calls for the combination of a lot of fields and sub-fields each theoretical and sensible.
For medication existed lengthy earlier than science — science as we all know it in the present day, no less than— and two and a half millennia after the time of Hippocrates, the connections and interactions between the realm of medication presided over by medical doctors and that presided over by scientists are advanced and never simply understood by the general public. Therefore the significance of Walliman’s readability of visible clarification, because it has advanced all through his scientific map-making profession, in addition to his readability of verbal clarification, on show by way of all 50 minutes of this video.
As Walliman emphasizes proper on the outset, he isn’t a medical physician — however he’s a “physician” within the sense that he has a PhD, and intellectually, he comes greater than well-placed to grasp how every a part of medication pertains to the others. That is very true of a lesser-known space of research like medical physics, whose fruits embrace imaging strategies like X-ray, MRI, CT, and ultrasound, with which many people have first-hand expertise as sufferers. Few non-specialists will ever be instantly concerned within the follow of, say, biology or engineering, however within the twenty-first century, it’s the uncommon human being certainly who by no means encounters the fact of medication. The subsequent time you end up in remedy, it definitely couldn’t do any hurt to orient your self on its map.
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Based mostly in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and tradition. His initiatives embrace the Substack publication Books on Cities, the e-book The Stateless Metropolis: a Stroll by way of Twenty first-Century Los Angeles and the video collection The Metropolis in Cinema. Observe him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Fb.
