SYO 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paradigm Shift, Thomas Kuhn, Consumerism
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9/2/2015 overview: scientific knowledge has an exponential growth (always growing/ increasing, thomas kuhn: historian of medical science. Analyzed exponential growth of science and found it actually works like a stair step nothing happens then a new discovery is made that launches. Paradigm shifts: an existing way of thinking about something is changed by finding a new way. (orange part of graph) Paradigm shift or paradigm resolution an existing way of thinking. Discover something so new that it changes the way you think. Takes us by surprise no one would have seen it coming. No actual agreement: resistance lasts longer in the public. All information can be coded as a series of zeros and ones. General public and scientific community will resist the paradigm. The new way is going to take over eventually. How doctors were able to leverage the power and what happened to take some power. Many doctors will only practice text book medicine.