Quote by Rudolf Virchow on Prophylaxis and Palliation

„My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.“

Dr. Rudolph VirchowQuote by Rudolf Virchow on prophylaxis as a political strategy versus his opponents' palliation.
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Rudolph Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, and politician known as the father of modern pathology.

Quote by Rudolf Virchow on political strategies of prevention and symptom treatment.


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Rudolf Virchow quote about prophylaxis and palliation

Rudolph Virchow (1821–1902) was a prominent German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, and politician. He is renowned for his contributions to cell theory, particularly the concept that cells arise from pre-existing cells, as well as for establishing modern pathology as a distinct discipline. Virchow made significant contributions to medicine, public health, and 19th-century science.

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"Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction." Rudolf Virchow
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"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense." Walter Lippmann
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"Unfortunately, science has become political. The virus has become political. And I have said that I do not want to comment on the feasibility and proportionality of this. That is a political question." Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck
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