HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Scholasticism, Andreas Vesalius, Mass Production
Renaissance Medicine - The Paradoxes of Early Modern
Anatomy
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
9:52 AM
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Reading
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• Andrew Cunningham
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"The Revival of Greek Anatomy"
• Black death - health catastrophe in Europe & a turning point in history
• Plague is here to stay
• Was not medieval
• Was a fact of life in Europe…
• Becomes rooted in laws, health boards
• Power of government over peoples lives
• Population does not rebound
• Financial decline of church and nobility
• These people are in a crisis
• Population is cut, can't find enough people to work on their land
• Price of land drops
• Power of the church - declined, needed to improvise new means of raising
funds
• The "golden age of bacteria" = "the golden age of the wage earner"
• Those who did survive the plague had a lot of purchasing power for their
labour
• Not enough people to work the fields, could demand what they wanted in
terms of wages
• Standard of living for the lower classes rose
• More disposable income across a wider social spectrum
• A lot of this income goes to health care
• As wages rise, so does the demand for health care because this is something
disposable income can buy
• This is good for business because there are more people that can afford &
access this service
• After the plague - boom in medical schools
• Higher level of government intervention in peoples lives
• More debate about whether this intervention is legitimate or not
• War and taxation
• Plague - age of religious anxiety & cultural paranoia
• How could God do this?
• But wait - Aftermath of the plague - golden age, more investment of people
into religion, charity
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