メディカル・ファッション : 医学・医療における<流行>の意味に関する一考察

抄録

The aim of this paper is to interpret "medical fashions" as the nature of medical practice. They have a powerful effect on how we treat, whom we treat, what we treat and even the directions of medical science. In this paper, I discuss fashions in treatments, fashions in laboratory tests, fashions in diseases, fashions in surgery, and the relationship between 'medicalization and medical fashions'. I came to the conclusion that the role of "medical fashion" is not necessarily negative, but is essential to creative evolutions or changes in medicine, and that this model of "medical fashion" is very important and useful in understanding medicine as 'a variable system without an everlasting center'.