Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Public Health, Biomedical Model, Flexner Report
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Biomedicine and the biomedical model originated from classical greece in the 4th century. Hippocrates humoral theory of disease: blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile. Period of major intellectual growth and change. Empirical verification(observation) became basis of scientific method. Art of healing became a science of medicine. Descartes: mind/body (dualism, machine with distinct parts, body"s were separate from the mind like a mechanical object. Virchow: pathologist who developed cell theory and cell functions, understood constituents of cells. Pasteur: chemist who looked into germ theory, pasteurization removed germs, social explanation of health and disease. Late 1800s ,germ theory of disease took hold. The idea that disease and health exist within the individuals body (still dominate today due to official definition) Tends to ignore social production of health and illness. Official definition- definitions that are enforced by education systems , popular media, news and social media. Biomedical model of health became dominant by early 1900s. Defining features: specific etiology (specific underlying cause)