Lecture I. The psychological vocation of the physician.

Citation

Winslow, F. (1854). Lecture I. The psychological vocation of the physician. In F. Winslow, Lettsomian on insanity (pp. 1-45). London, Great Britain: John Churchill.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/12106-001

Abstract

The author has undertaken, in this first lecture, to illustrate the special psychological attributes of the physician--to claim for the cultivators of medical science higher and more exalted functions than those usually assigned to them--to consider the physician in his spiritual character, as having at his command, and under his control, a medicina mentis as well as a medicina corporis--agents of great power and magnitude--which have not been sufficiently recognised or appreciated. His goal is to establish the close connexion between the science of mind, and the science and practice of medicine, and to illustrate the true philosophic character of the professors of the healing art. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)