| 单词 | therapeutic nihilism |
| 释义 | > as lemmastherapeutic nihilism 5. Medicine. More fully therapeutic nihilism. The belief that therapy, or a therapy, usually for a specific disease, group of patients, etc., is inefficacious or otherwise unwarranted. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [noun] > other theories or doctrines Galenism1728 Hippocratism1779 Ayurveda1789 rationalism1800 solidism1832 pneumatism1838 Arabism1847 organicism1853 Thomsonianism1853 physiatrics1858 unicity1861 stoicheiology1875 contrastimulism1881 pangermism1887 nihilism1900 naturopathy1901 physiatry1947 orgonomy1949 bioethics1970 1900 Catholic World Jan. 472 This reaction degenerated into almost therapeutic nihilism on the part of scientific medical men by the middle of the present century. 1916 Science 17 Mar. 377/2 With the development of opportunities to study disease in its incipiency optimistic therapy will more and more take the place of the therapeutic nihilism that haunts the autopsy room. 1959 French Hist. Stud. 1 160 An added attraction of Raspail, the physician, was that he prescribed medication with complete trust in its effectiveness. This attitude contrasted with the therapeutic nihilism typical of the age. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 15 Feb. 365/2 You may remember the early thirties when a wave of therapeutic nihilism struck clinical medicine, largely as a protest against the uncritical polypharmacy. 1983 Head & Neck Surg. 5 376 There is little justification for therapeutic nihilism even in the elderly patient. 2002 Jrnl. Vascular Surg. 36 1167 Nihilism has no place in the management of venous disease in the 21st century. < as lemmas |
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