HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Andreas Vesalius, Techne, Barber Surgeon
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History 249 health and the healer in the western world. Ancient vs. modern medicine in the western world 15/10/2013. Layers of different frameworks are piled upon each other. The craft paradigm = medicine as a craft and occupation: different from the roles of the priests = separation from religion ancient egypt! Then the philosophical paradigm = ancient greeks called the philosophic paradigm because it is the application of philosophical models to the practice of medicine esp. Aristotle"s teleology and its use in explaining the body"s structure and functions: scholarly paradigm from the middle ages onwards = scholasticism as a way of managing knowledge which. They did develop quite late, but they are evident at the point where modern" can start (interesting point. = all of this is very different from societies where western medicine did not develop especially together, this has created very specific institutions.
