SOCI 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Flexner Report, Medicine Man, Alternative Medicine
22 Feb 2018
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Importance of scientific breakthroughs & medicine: alignment with science: push for evaluation of medical schools, no curriculum or standardization vaccinations stronger form of standardization, the most influential report on history of biomedicine: the flexner. Report: flexner report (1910): recommendations, medical education in the us & canada, curriculum, medical schools should have a 4-year curriculum, a standard curriculum, faculty lectures, faculty, training system. Ideological and cultural struggles for social mobility: medicine today: practices & issues, general practitioners, specialists, surgeons, general practitioners provide medical care, make referrals, gatekeepers. Ci(cid:396)(cid:272)u(cid:373)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:863: started the institution to promote a respectable profession, carefully screened patients. 4: women couldn"t see a naked body/no physical exams which limited the forms of practice they could engage in, crimean war (mid. Images of nursing that were promoted through the model have been significantly damaging. Dystocia (slow labor: hospital schedule & standard practices, induction & pitocin (oxytocin, epidural, forceps, vacuum, episiotomy, caesarean section, slows down by epidural, higher risk of c-section.
