PHSC 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hospital Medicine, Miasma Theory, Germ Theory Of Disease
2 Mar 2017
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Public health measures shaped by naturalism, religion/moral values. System of plague measures: sanitary cordons, lazarettos, quarantine, etc. Vaccination as a public health strategy w regard to smallpox in particular. One of the major conceptual scientific revolutions: e(cid:395)ui(cid:448)ale(cid:374)t to galileo"s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k i(cid:374) ast(cid:396)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455), da(cid:396)(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s theo(cid:396)(cid:455) of e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374), et(cid:272). Before 1789: conceptual framework of medicine dominated by humoral theory: challenged by new ideas about circulatory system and nervous system. Continued to frame medical philosophy, language, therapeutics and education: conceptual framework of epidemic diseases dominated by miasma theory. Corruption or poisoning of the air (malaria) 1989-1900: public health changes dramatically: miasmas disappearing, humoral models disappearing, basic principles of ph recognizably similar to current models. Very rapid transformation: germ theories of disease central to revolution. Hospital medicine: the germ theory did not arise from hospital medicine (especially not in paris) but inconceivable without the background, for germ theories to be possible you needed to have:
