Concept information
Preferred term
medicine
Definition
- Medicine—the science and art of diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease—has often been tied to beliefs about religion and the supernatural. In North America, religion and medicine have been joined together both in Native American healing traditions and through a long history of Christian engagement with medical practice and its moral implications. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion; Medicine]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- adolescent medicine
- aerospace medicine
- allergy and immunology
- andrology
- anesthesiology
- bariatric medicine
- behavioral medicine
- biomedicine
- clinical medicine
- community medicine
- dermatology
- disaster medicine
- emergency medical treatment
- emergency medicine
- forensic medicine
- general practices
- geriatrics
- integrative medicine
- internal medicine
- medical data
- medical diagnosis
- medical examination
- medical genetics
- medical reports
- medical specialization
- military medicine
- molecular medicine
- naval medicine
- neurology
- nuclear medicine
- osteopathic medicine
- pathology
- pediatrics
- physical and rehabilitation medicine
- radiology
- regenerative medicine
- reproductive medicine
- social medicine
- sports medicine
- surgical specialties
- telemedicine
- travel medicine
- tropical medicine
- venereology
- veterinary medicine
- wilderness medicine
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/medicine
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