Wayne State University School of Medicine - Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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The Betimann Archive Claude Bernard C1813-l878l French physiologist experimenting on rabbit before a group of colleagues. It was the great physiologist Claude Bernard who in- sisted that physical phenomena associated with the life process are subject to the same experimental analysis as any other mechanisms such as, for example, those com- monly considered in physics and chemistry. His point of view was the basis of many fruitful results. Repeatedly, since his time, someone has contributed to our under- standing of physiological regulatory mechanisms by in- troducing some new measuring device or finding a way to arrange conditions for noticing something new. Advances in technology have brought electronics, counting devices, automatic monitors and a whole gamut of gadgetry into the field of biology. Practically every vital manifestation of bodily function can now be mea- sured electronically. The astronaut's excitement, as re- flected in his heart beat, is recorded on earth. His total physiological response receives proportionate attention, and his absolute requirements for survival have to be met. Behind all these developments is the modern biology laboratory, with its electronic instruments and dedicated scientists. The evolution of physiological science is, however, not stuck at the level of materialism and sensory illusions. There is an acknowledged confrontation with the mean- ing of sensory experience. Awareness of the place of consciousness and living consciously is producing an im- pact on our ideas of what physiology is really about. The center of education is neither student nor faculty, for each individual can and must say that it is only my personal physiology which is the subject of education. Medicine is wisely dedicated to the welfare of individual patients one at a time are words from joshua Lederberg. The physicist P. W. Bridgeman put the facts of physiology even more strongly as follows: g'Finally, I come to what it seems to me may well be from the long range point of view the most revolutionary of the insights to be derived from our recent experiences in physics, more revolu- tionary than the insights afforded by the discoveries of Galileo and Newton, or of Darwin. This is the insight that it is impossible to transcend the human reference pointf, So the subject of physiology is the very spirit of the individual person. Until each one is ready to try and utilize the health benefits of conscious living, the dormant power of the human condition can only blossom to a limited extent. The great evolution in physiology is to- ward upholding individuality, toward recognizing the total subjectivity of living, toward reverence for all that is lived, toward cherishing the practical value of our material resources, and above all, toward the right to cultivate good humor, integrity, industry, and the science of self.

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DEPARTME T PHY IGLGGY AND PHARMACGLQGY Walter I-I. Seegers, Chairman ' 72 I l W lx 4, SITTING QLeft to Rightjz Geraldine M. Purcell, Marion I. Barnhart, Robert S. Shepard, Gordon F, Anderson, Allen Silbcrgleit, Charles R Walter H. Seegers, joseph Plilfner, Raymond L. Henry. STAND- Harmison, Eberhard F. Mammen. ING CLeft to Rightj: -john E. Burton, D. C. Triantaphyllopolous, 108

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