HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blood Sugar, Clinical Trial, Pharmaceutical Industry
27 Feb 2017
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Short answers mostly focus on concepts and themes that occur repeatedly (might involve article) About 15 mc and 3 short answer. Disease speci city: idea that each disease has one very speci c cause, usually speci c course/evolution (symptoms, etc. ) and speci c treatment. Illness is physical, even mental illness is seen as rooted in body. Reductionism: (all disease can be reduce to smallest level (cellular process)) - need to look what is going on at cellular level to understand disease. Machine metaphor: body as a functioning machine, can nd cause of breakdown and do something about it. Disease is something an individual has within your organs (quality of your body) Health and disease are binary states (either healthy or has disease, not a spectrum) Church authority gets less powerful = regulations on how to treat body become under attack. Removed restrictions on anatomy (what you could do with cadaver - could cut body open and examine organs)
