SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Contagious Diseases Acts, Oberlin College, Inductive Reasoning
2 Mar 2013
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Activist: strong supporter of the anti-slavery movement, worked for the vote for women and rights to education, divorce and occupations, wrote on violence against women, worked with nightingale to try to stop passage of the contagious. Diseases act when it was first proposed and continued in the struggle for repeal of the various acts that were passed: promoted promotion of public health and preventative medicine with. Nightingale (even though martineau smoked cigars) first publication on methodology: essays on the art of thinking - 1836. How to think logically and bring appropriate evidence to bear on the problems of the day. Methodology for decisions on legislation, running a household, and raising children. Saught the causes of and best cures for evils like deficient observation, perverted judgment, unchastened imagination, indolent attention, and treacherous memory. The correct process was to form theories from facts (she was citing francis bacon) (i believe this is called inductive reasoning)
