HSCI 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rudolf Virchow, Non-Communicable Disease, Louis Pasteur
20 Feb 2018
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Week 3: i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)g health pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s as so(cid:272)ial issues. Paradigms and evidence used including what was happening in disease prevalence in those times and where we are presently. Rise of germ theory + microbiological explanations with public health interventions. Evidence is around population health generated by physical activity. Hippocrates: understand and observe health 1st person to believe that disease was caused naturally (not b/c of superstition + gods) Da vinci make sense of the world and body (internally/externally) Rise of biomedicalism: rene descartes father of dualism (cartesian dualism, move away from religious beliefs and philosophy, robert koch disease etiology. Key historical moments in developing social origins of illne ss + rise of. Engels the conditions of the working class in england. John snow noted link b/w water and cholera during epidemic in london (father of epidemiology) Rudolf virchow early advocate of the state redistributing social resources.
