SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Drug Resistance, Tuberculosis, Barefoot Doctor
3 Apr 2016
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Colonial medicine: negaive impacts on public health: Extracion of wealth that prevented indigenous people from growing out of the cycle of poverty and disease: example: panama canal. There was a yellow fever outbreak amongst the workers. People tried to ind out what was causing the disease, but for economic reasons rather than humanitarian/development purposes. They didn"t want construcion to be held up any longer: legacies of colonial medicine: Missionary medicine focused on the control of the populaions for physical as well as moral health. ** curing their ills by megan vaughan ies health to conversion to chrisianity. Western concepion of public health is seen as internaional, is closely allied. Therapeuic revoluion and its efect on global health: with ideologies of naional security and commerce: late 19th century brought a dramaic change to health care with the advent of the germ theory of disease. Diseases came to be seen as speciic and separate rather than caused by vague humoral imbalance.
