Medical fallibility – cultural recognition and representation

Medicalerrorswerepreviouslyseen as residual phenomena, unfortunate events onthe margins of healthcare. Today they are under-stood to be integral to the medical endeavour.Here, we identify the cultural and intellectualantecedentsofscientificandsafetyinterestinaber-rantly provided healthcare. Investigators beganformally to enquire into human error just over acentury ago. Freud’s

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