HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Marie François Xavier Bichat, Hospital Medicine, Stethoscope
Document Summary
The traditional was an all purpose social welfare place. Bold political and social experiment that involved a radical rejection of the past. Disenfranchised tha catholic church all the hstpials across franc ewer withdrawn from the control of the church. University medical schools disbanded was a type of guild. No more faculties of medicine anywhere in france. Dissolved medical corporations, guilds, surgical colleges, academies of medicine. Everyone could offer their medical services for a fee unregulated market. 1794 medical schools were recreated called schools of health. No more medical guild/colleges to decide on licensing. Old division between medicine and surgery was abandon the enlightenment had always rejected this fusion of medicine and surgery. State was put in charge of the schools. Doctors are running the hospitals (won the ppwer truggle with religious authorities) Before, doctors would volunteer to work in hospitals to show their philanthropy. Was a way of showing prestige, not advancing their career this was different now.
