BMED 271 Lecture Notes - Organism, Prevalence, Bracketing
9 Feb 2021
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Module 1: origins of research, research questions, and rationales. Section 1: origins of research in human health and disease. Epistemology: answers what is knowledge: evolved from, empiricism: focus on observations by the sense, rationalism: combo of observation, theory, and a system of thinking, constructivism: knowledge is generated from subjective representations of objective realities. John graunt: collected stat on births and deaths to quantify patterns of disease: first expert in epidemiology. Health research and the etiology of autism: 1900s: autism term used to describe a subset of schizophrenic patients who were especially withdrawn and self absorbed, 1940s: leo kanner proposed parental coldness as a cause of autism. Health research and the prevention of aids: early reporting. June 1981: us clinicians identify an unusual cluster of pneumonia in gay men. Late 1982: used research processes to document the nature of aids, identifying hiv as the origin: further research explored transmission + emphasized need for pubic to assist in preventing the disease"s spread.
