HSS 2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cholera, Organismic Theory, Autoimmune Disease

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2121
• Professor: Louise Edmonds

Document Summary

Know authors of important articles and themes. Medicine concerned with the cause, origin, nature of a disease. Variant or deviation of a condition from normal. Jackie duffin** medicine is not a science, rather it is an applied technology or an act that makes extensive use of science . Cookbook medicine : run tests and the health care professional does not come in contact with the patient as much now, not as personal, can"t tell if they"re looking jaundice or pale. Pathology: study of suffering ***, used to be rooted in cultural and spiritual sin and shame (got disease because you sinned) Has changed over time, adjust to the current medicine and science of the time. Normal and abnormal (illness): conditioned by culture, religion, class, and biological factors. Used to be: transgenderism, homosexuality, left-handedness; they are now part of our society and we are more understanding (except in some religions. Newly diagnosed diseases (sleep apnea, fetal alcohol syndrome, etc)