History and prospects of Pathology in Medicine

Abstract

To address the historical advance of Pathology and predict all its future development in a single article would be very pretentious, if not impossible. In the present article, we will present the key development points in the field of Pathology through the centuries, and particularly the reflex of such development at the Department of Pathology of University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine. Each of the later cited “ages” include pivotal stages of development of Pathology, new tools and Disease Development Theories in each period of time, as well as its relationship to the general history of medicine. We conclude pointing some interesting perspectives on molecular and digital pathology as well as on interdisciplinary integration.