HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Diphtheria, Attenuated Vaccine, Endocrinology

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Gradual (cid:862)(cid:271)ioligizatio(cid:374)(cid:863) of (cid:373)edi(cid:272)i(cid:374)e; i(cid:374)(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)g do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e of (cid:271)asi(cid:272) s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e: basic understanding of cellular and genetic biology. Growing role of state and demands for health care-health insurance: state is more and more involved in what used to be a private interaction between physicians and patients. Dominance of clinical trails and eventually clinical guidelines. Medical schools and university research institutes: medical faculties judged on their research. National institutes of health (1930 but growth mainly post wwii) Gradual growth of research until 1940 and then huge spurt of new growth (especially by. * by 1960s could talk about bio-medicine (medicine informed by innovation in biological knowledge: us government was on a level of its own insane funding. Most significant advances have to do with controlling infectious diseases. Somewhat less success with chronic diseases like cancer and cardiovascular diseases though research after 1950 increasingly focused on them: not the same game changing solutions they have for infectious diseases.

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