Year: 1971
Type: editorial
Abstract: The British Society for Surgery of the Hand, possibly the youngest professional society in the country, is to be congratulated for setting a notable example to its elders by extending its scientific meeting, held in Salisbury on June 12, 1970, to embrace engineering disciplines.It is not unlikely that the latter half of the twentieth century will become known as the period in which biological engineering, human engineering, call it what you will, made a revolutionary impact on the practice of medicine, surgery, rehabilitation, preventive medicine and indeed all facets of the care and conservation of the human race.Meetings such as this provide a forum for members of all interested disciplines, to meet on level terms and to expose their own contributions to the common task to the scrutiny of those of other disciplines and create the atmosphere necessary for progress.They open up the necessary cross-fertilisation, not the least by establishing terminology which is understood by all concerned.In this connection I often feel that more information is exchanged in the anterooms than in the lecture hall at meetings of this sort, and Salisbury was no exception to this.
Source: HAND
Author: D. S. McKENZIE
Language: Spanish
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2400296109