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Barton Childs, the great medical geneticist and teacher, provides a perspective on the role of genetics in medicine when he contrasts the approaches of two of the giants of medicine, William Osler and Archibald Garrod, both of whom held the position of regius professor of medicine at Oxford. Whereas the Oslerian world was one of a body ravaged by disease, the one that of Garrod was of an organism in balance with its environment. An individual with a given genetic endowment interacted with the environment to maintain or perturb homeostasis [1].
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Rosenblatt, D.S., Fitzpatrick, J. (2011). Whole Person Care and the Revolution in Genetics. In: Hutchinson, T. (eds) Whole Person Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9440-0_14
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