HIST 104 Lecture : Feb 26.pdf
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Used to be just for the poor, but middle class people began going in them, generally separated from the lower classes. Read harrison chapter 4, and article that will be sent to us: give me a laboratory and i will raise the world". We"ve been considering the physician, patient, and disease. We"re now thinking about it in terms of the physician-patient relationship. Up until a point, the relationship was the doctor listening to how the patient described their illness. This changed in favour of using diagnostic technologies. In the late 18th century, hospitals were opening up and a wider variety of people were attending hospitals. This tied in with the new conception of the body as a machine. Simple data collecting and statistical accumulation of data was becoming popular. The common idea was that disease was caused by lesions. Disease is closely linked to the understanding of anatomy, particularly because of the autopsies connected with disease.
