Schweizerische Ärztezeitung: critical assessment of cellular therapy (early 1970s)

clinical paper · 1973

type:clinical paper

year:1973

citation:Schweizerische Ärztezeitung (Swiss Medical Journal / Bulletin des médecins suisses), early-1970s issues following Niehans's death in September 1971. The Swiss Medical Association (FMH) is the publishing body; the journal is the primary professional-society publication for Swiss physicians and the appropriate venue for collective professional assessment of a contested protocol.

SUMMARY

Swiss medical-professional journal coverage of cellular therapy in the period immediately following Niehans's death in September 1971. The journal is the primary professional-society publication of the FMH (Federation of Swiss Physicians) and is the canonical venue for the Swiss medical profession's collective assessment of a contested protocol. SÄZ coverage in the early 1970s contributed to the eventual professional consensus that fresh-cell therapy of the Niehans type lay outside accepted Swiss medical practice.

NOTES

The SÄZ coverage is the canonical reference for the Swiss medical profession’s collective assessment of cellular therapy in the years immediately after Niehans’s death. The FMH archive holds the relevant material in print and microfilm form. The professional-society discourse in SÄZ during the early 1970s was a substantial input to the regulatory trajectory that eventually placed fresh-cell therapy of the Niehans type outside recognized Swiss medicine.