SOC243H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 2: Ivan Illich, Marc Lalonde, Diminishing Returns
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A historical controversy and its enduring influence (colgrove, 2002) Use of mckeown"s work mckeown"s work was used in several different debates, new causes of poor health and journals that discredited the field of medicine. Debates: debate over the relationship between food supply, economic development, population growth, debate in us + great britain over the appropriate focus and allocation of medical resources. A theory is discredited: parts of the mckeown thesis were scrutinized in 1960s and early 1970s, but it was in the. 1970s and 1980s (after the publication of the modern rise of population and the role of. Medicine) that the most criticism occurred it was ultimately on empirical grounds that the mckeown thesis was overturned the techniques used by historical demographers became more sophisticated in from. Szreter found that public health measures such as clean water + milk supplies had greater importance in mortality rates found that mckeown biased his interpretation of evidence.
