Jean Rosa

From one Medicine to Another From a Craft Industry to High Techology

Jean Rosa belongs to the post-war generation that transformed French medicine from a state of powerless humanism — all the more "humane" because it was so often helpless — to one of scientific and technical efficiency. Unfortunately, in the process, medicine seems to have lost its human face. In this book, Rosa shows how he contributed to this medical revolution: on the one hand, through the "Debré Reform", which instituted teaching hospitals, thus firmly linking medical research with therapeutic and surgical treatment, and, on the other hand, by associating medicine with molecular biology. Jean Rosa is Emeritus Professor in the medical school of the University of Paris-XII and a member of the French Academy of Science