History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Medicine Man, On Ancient Medicine, Ethnocentrism

• School: Western University
• Department: History of Science
• Course: History of Science 2220
• Professor: Dorotea Gucciardo

Document Summary

Unit 2 physiology: prehistory to ancient history. Physiology explains the how the function of the body. Anatomy is the what: it is the eyeball the pupil. Physiology is the how: it is the eyeball the pupil is an opening that allows light to enter the eye. How the body is functioning and what makes it function. Goes all the way back to pre-historic period before writing. First nations band in manitoba in canada. Well into the 17th, 18th, 19th century they remained in the pre-historic period; however, the. Problems: it"s going to being from an extremely ethnocentric viewpoint, lots of judgement, bias and prejudiced against first nations way of life. Best account we have in the types of medicine. Period of time we are referring to here is the post-contact period. Diseases are being introduced to first nations areas that they did not experience before. The diseases travel faster and farther than the people.