J. D. Swales (editor), Platt versus Pickering: an episode in recent medical history, London, Keynes Press (British Medical Association), 1985, 8vo, pp. [vii], 155, illus., £45.00.
Year: 1986
Type: book-review
Abstract: Collected in a finely produced volume, the main pieces of the long and famous debate between Robert Platt and George Pickering about the nature of essential hypertension are particularly welcome and timely.Indeed, the debate has not only a historical interest as if today hypertension research delights in looking back at its roots, in revisiting the battlefields or, more properly, the tourney arenas in which it has developed.The fact is that, consciously or unconsciously, the debate is still going on, and this volume is a good opportunity and a healthy stimulus to discover how much of one side of the debate is yet concealed under the other, though the latter side is now considered as common wisdom and orthodox teaching.Professor John Swales, the editor of the publication, has made an excellent selection from the most important and pertinent writings of the two combatants and has admirably summarized the terms of the debate and its evolution in time.The technical controversy, as is
Source: Medical History
Author: Alberto Zanchetti
Institutions: University of Milan, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W5328468