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. 2021 Feb;97(1144):75-76.
doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-137804. Epub 2020 May 13.

Why paleomedicine is useful for medical education

Philippe Charlier  1   2 , Simon Donnell  3 , Donatella Lippi  4 , Andreas Nerlich  5 , Victor Asensi  6 , Antonio Perciaccante  7 , Otto Appenzeller  8 , Raffaella Bianucci  9
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Why paleomedicine is useful for medical education

Philippe Charlier et al. Postgrad Med J. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

What is the place of medico-historical cases in the professional practice of the disciplinary field of medicine and biology? How can these patients from the past be used for teaching and continuing medical education? How to justify their place in biomedical publications? In this article, we explain all the legitimacy of paleomedicine, and the need to intensify such research in the form of a well-individualised branch of paleopathology and the history of medicine.

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