SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rudolf Virchow, Alvin Ward Gouldner, Epidemiological Transition
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Death rate among workers in industrialized britain much higher, because of the working conditions in the factory. There was no academic sociology yet: rudolf virchow (biologist/md): assigned to find out about an outbreak of typhus in upper silesia (poland?) Outbreak was due to conditions of living of the people there. Poor food, housing, clothing, inequality and injustice. Not drugs to fix medical conditions, it"s a social problem: use these two as a distinction although they are in different fields. Theory of society and inequality and distribution of wealth. Reformist perspective on health becomes institutionalized into public health. Goes to experts that try to arrange policies and make services more accessible. Look at the history of health and its treatment. The connection to morality was present in medicine/healing from the beginning. Shamnistic (magico-religious) healing sucking out evil spirit, induced vomiting, bloodletting, trepanation (drilling the head to let the spirit out)
