HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Electronic Body Music, Evidence-Based Medicine, Prescription Drug
4 Mar 2017
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It also has a specific evolution (what a person can expect to experience over the course of the disease). Other frameworks of health have more broad/variable causes. Body focused, illness is a physical thing (materialism) Reductionism; all diseases can be reduced to the smallest level (there is a cellular process) Ignores the social determinants of health; any problem is a problem with your own body. You either have a disease or you don"t. Around this time, the church gets less powerful. The regulations on how to treat the human body came under attack. The stethoscope, microscope, etc. gave physicians further access to the body. The idea emerged of science being more powerful than faith when determining truths determining truths. Koch (germ theory), lister (hygiene), virchow (cellular pathology) In every step, we move past the patient and their story, and into their body. You must follow the rules, or else you get kicked out.
