TY - BOOK ID - 217016 TI - The aetiology of deep venous thrombosis : a critical, historical and epistemological survey AU - Malone, P. Colm. AU - Agutter, Paul S. PY - 2008 SN - 1281167681 9786611167684 1402066503 9781402066498 140206649X 9781402066504 PB - Dordrecht : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Thrombophlebitis KW - Veins KW - Etiology. KW - Diseases KW - Blood-vessels KW - Venous thrombosis KW - Phlebitis KW - Thrombosis KW - Hematology. KW - Pathology. KW - Medicine. KW - Vascular Surgery. KW - Medicine-Philosophy. KW - History of Medicine. KW - Philosophy of Medicine. KW - Disease (Pathology) KW - Medical sciences KW - Medicine KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - Haematology KW - Internal medicine KW - Blood KW - Vascular surgery KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Health Workforce KW - Medicine—History. KW - Vascular surgery. KW - Medicine—Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:217016 AB - What we now call ‘deep venous thrombosis’ (DVT) has been studied in diverse ways during the last 200–300 years. Each of these approaches contributes to a full modern understanding of aetiology. Therefore, much of this book is a historical survey of the field. However, our remit is broader than the title might suggest: the evolution of ideas about DVT is typical in many ways of medical biology as a whole. Thus, although the aetiology of DVT may seem a narrow topic for a monograph – it implicitly excludes arterial thrombosis and marginalises prophylaxis, therapy, and even such clinically significant sequelae as pulmonary embolism – we hope to engage the reader in a much more general inquiry. Our historical investigation reveals a 160-year-old schism between two contrasting philosophies of medical and biological research, a schism that is particularly – but by no means uniquely – relevant to the study of DVT. In principle, these philosophies should be complementary rather than competing. So while we wish to elucidate the aetiology of DVT per se, we are also concerned with a more abstract and wide-ranging issue: the future accommodation or rapprochement between two conceptual and methodological traditions. ER -