In the 18th edition you discover ample material on pathogens, even a chapter on the human microbiome , a chapter on women’s health, but no definition of health. Overall, one gets the impression that medicine offers with disease and not health. In a current assembly, certainly one of my colleagues mentioned that the US National Institutes of Health should accurately be called National Institutes of Diseases reflecting this illness focus of medical analysis. Health is presently trendy as ‘Global Health’, but once more scientists working at institutes referred to as like this or in such programmes deal largely with ailments.…