SOC 2101 Lecture : Lecture 1

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2101
• Professor: Kristen Tole

Document Summary

Urbanization, poverty: overcrowding, people working long days very hard jobs, but not getting anywhere. Social medicine : they start connecting some dots. Germ theory of diseases: people wash their hands between patients. 1950"s and 1960"s: four main changes: changing patterns of morbidity and mortality. A shift from acute, infectious diseases (influenza, tuberculosis) to chronic, degenerative diseases (heart disease, cancer: we figured out that smoking causes cancer, we discovered things about diabetes, helps people live longer. Social patterns and life style: what we eat, what we do during our day, if we exercise, the impact of preventive medicine and public health. 1800s to early 1900s bacteriology (linking germs to disease) and immunology (preventing disease) Robert koch doctrine of specific etiology . Knowing about your patients mental state helps and changes things. Use of patients" social environment as part of therapy house calls are no longer done, but knowing where a patient lives helps: the impact of administrative medicine.