HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hysterectomy, Radiography, Middle Ages

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 249
• Professor: Faith Wallis

Document Summary

Intellectual changes that occurred did not occur in a vacuum, they occurred in institutions, especially hospitals. Hospital is the central institutions to advance biomedicine. Some classic aspects of a modern hospital; aprons/white coats, people standing and watching the physician, inoculation (most likely diphtheria), checking throat (cid:894)no (cid:271)lo(cid:272)ked air passages(cid:895). Patients without social resources: mds can handle their bodies more freely when they are alive, and have access to them after death, since they were getting public aid, they were not in a position to protest. Makes pathological anatomy and research on patients possible. Islamic world from 8th to 12th century elaborate civil hospitals; byzantium as well: perfectly preserved examples, and archeological remnants. Stages of hospital development: religious institution (from early middle ages). These subscribers also handled the administrative tasks of hospital. The medical and surgical staff held honorary positions, they were either unpaid or received token salaries.