Nationalism and Internationalism in Medicine

Henry Sigerist, perhaps the first proponent of the idea of equalitarian public health systems, is discussed by acolyte and subsequent implementer of available health and educational programs Professor Ntongola Masilela. Sigerist is a key figure in the rationalism and desegregation of medical practices in the Western world, having divined a move away from territorialism and nationalism to a unified internationalist standard of medical practice that operates on the rules of scientific observation rather than through the embedded mythologies of a given empire.