Sociology 2179A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Lancaster, New Brunswick, Flexner Report, Erving Goffman

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Describe the history of the hospital and the mental hospital and idenify how each has changed over ime. Recognize diferences among long-term care faciliies, assisted living faciliies, home care and hospices. Understand the social construcion of technology in medicine. The hospital, as we know it, is a modern invenion that has been transformed over ime. At various imes, it has been: charity for the poor, a temple of science, a complex bureaucracy. First hospital in canada was established in1639 in quebec: hotel-dieu de quebec: almshouse for those who were far from a hospital: orphans, criminals, the disabled, and the insane custodial care. As canada grew, municipaliies also began to build hospitals. Growth of hospitals due to converging interests of doctors, church organizaions and other community leaders. The flexner report (1910) marks the beginning of the transformaion of the hospital into a temple of science.

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