HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Inflectional Phrase, Lightning, Richard Allestree
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People have been concerned with health and disease as patients and as providers of treatment and care. Porter: interaction of people, disease and health care set in context of societies and their beliefs. History can provide insights into the types of beliefs and behaviours of societies and people in the past, offering a dimension of longitudinal meaning over time. Subdiscipline of med history focuses on the exam of how predecessors understood ideas of health and illness, and they ways them and their societies chose to deal with related issues. Accounts of history of med often focus on individs and their contributions to understanding immunology and vaccination. History of med explores the development of healthcare and med, seeking to understand the factors contributing to change like tech developments, rel, or war. Mind and body, the environment, natural and supernatural causation and morality all influenced the ways that health was conceptualized. New concept of focusing on disease rather than health.
