HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Radiography, Germ Theory Of Disease, Antiseptic
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Talking about a new medical paradigm: the rst thing that we looked at were changes in medical thought and conceptions and to some degree in medical practice that depended on these conceptions. Intellectual changes did not occur in a vacuum. They occurred in very speci c institutions: one of the key institutions is the hospital. The hospital has been a central institution in the development of what we now call biomedicine. Aspects of the modern hospital are now evident. Hospital as a place that was geared to patients without social resources, they were charitable institutions which meant that patients had to accept what was done to them or get up and leave if they could. As people who were getting publicly funded aid they were not in a position to protest. The numbers of bodies and the accessibility of these bodies during life and after death made possible paris clinical medicine based on pathological anatomy and clinical research in general.
