SOC 608 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Biomedical Model, Flexner Report, Foodborne Illness
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Up until 2015 men stem cells have been used, medical is patriarchal. By accident some female stem cells were used. When they were using the male stem cells they kept dying when they injected the disease, when they did this over and over again. When they did this with the female stem cells they became sick but kept fighting the disease. They never thought to question that maybe the male body was the prototype . Bio medical model emerges in late 1800"s when medicine is created. People thought they got sick because someone casted a spell on them, they did not connect hygiene with health. If you bathed, it was looked at as bad. The only people who knew about medicine were midwifes, knew how to stop bleeding after birth and knew how to make their own medicine. While they were there at the house they were asked to treat other people in the house with food poisoning, the flue.