SOCIOL 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anatomical Pathology, Miasma Theory, Infant Mortality
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19th century health ; high birth rate, high mortality rate > decline in mortality rate, smaller decline in birth rate > ppl growth life expectancy rise, mortality rate drop, quality of life . ): e. g. , cholera outbreak in 1845 london: miasma theory of disease > water sanitation, sewage: medicine (medical care) (after 1950): Medical care: infant mortality (survival of low birth weight) Cardiovascular disease (major killer 2nd part 20th century) Population health principle: addressing large group of people at low risk > addressing small group of people at high risk (geoffrey rose: rise of professional medicine. Early medicine: popular resistance, internal divisions, inhospitable economic environment. Early medical care: family-based, oral tradition, therapy: blood letting emetics, scientific revolution: anatomic pathology. Consolidation of professional authority (1850-1930: ama, license: join forces against untrained practitioners, medical education: medicine belongs to physicians, squashing down nostrum medicine, eliminate free care > price competition, no third party between patient and physician.
