HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture 11: Health and Aging Lecture 11.10.2012.docx
19 Nov 2012
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Cma established (mid 1800"s with monopoly), state support for admission, acquisition, autonomous practice, regulation. Male dominated medical profession nuns and other women defined as unskilled workers. Nurses graduate in late 1800"s handmaidens to doctors, expectation articulated by florence. Nightingale: not instinctive doctors, they were instinctive caregivers (mothers, etc, women who have tried to be doctor have simply become third-rate men, few female doctors had any ability. Doctors shed unwanted jobs to nurses (pecking order of responsibilities: nurses don"t want to do housekeeping, ancillary staff is utilized for that. World war two expanded the need for health care in canada. Initiated new thought about health care = results in universal health care with the provincial and federal governments taking responsibility.
