History 2186A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Services, Dementia, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 2186A/B
• Professor: Jonathan Vance

Document Summary

If it (cid:271)leeds, it leads : disease of the month club, big pharma, punditry, them, not us, plague in glorious living colour. Really terrible prediction day (cid:862)it"s ti(cid:373)e to (cid:272)lose the (cid:271)ook o(cid:374) i(cid:374)fe(cid:272)tious diseases, a(cid:374)d de(cid:272)la(cid:396)e the (cid:449)a(cid:396) agai(cid:374)st pestile(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:863) . No evidence this was actually said by stewart, nor could they determine where it came from. Although major tasks still remain in the improvement of control over the infectious diseases, chronic diseases now constitute the p(cid:396)edo(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)t health p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s i(cid:374) this (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:863) Not doing so good about chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer. Fear is usually counterproductive and has negative affects. The diseases discussed today did not kill immense amounts of people, but they still created panic. Better informed, better educated, more access to good science than we ever had before - yet we still panic at prospect of epidemic disease. However, peru gov. still blamed the poor the ppl who were dying.