HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Syphilis, Middle Ages, Know Thyself
24 Oct 2016
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Academic solidarity the template for professional solidarity; professional solidarity the basis of social government recognition of hegemony of academic medicine. Medications and procedures which can be justified by medical theory. Irregulars (in descending order of degree of involvement) The medieval norm: explanation through hierarchies of causality. Air corrupted by evil vapours rising from earth and water, swamps, deep valley, corpses, frogs and snakes. The golden age of bacteria = the golden age of the wage earner . More disposable income across a wider social spectrum. Medicine in the renaissance: the case of anatomy. Doctors involved in public health and health politics. Printing: the diffusion and popularization of medical learning. Body is the perfect work of the ultimate craftsman, & the house of the soul. Recovery of ancient knowledge through critical editions of text (humanism) 1. andreas vesalius and the structure of the human body (1543) Medical humanism 1: two reasons to study anatomy. Body is the instrument (organon) of the soul.
