PHSC 401 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Terence V. Powderly, Rat Flea, Favid
31 Jan 2017
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Study questions week 6: history of public health. Mycobacterium tuberculosis person to person via respiratory system. Mycobacterium bovis animal to human via consumption. Notions about the hereditary character of consumption. Change diet, change environment, rest, avoid stress. Cultural circumstances led literate observers to associate pulmonary tuberculosis with the upper and middle classes of society. Reality most victims were the working poor. Romantic thinkers believed disease was always present part of a continuum of energy that included life itself. Many people started to see consumption as a social problem (or as the product of social problems) Tied it less clearly to romantic sensibilities. Furthered burdened the stigma which associated poverty and tuberculosis in a symbiotic relationship of individual failure. People who should have tuberculosis, did not circumstances led to an emphasis on predisposing cases that might explain why the basic cause (heredity or contagion) could overcome resistance of some and not others.
