HISTORY 70F Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Andreas Vesalius, Theodor Schwann, Louis Pasteur
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Initially more concerned with exterior: didn"t really look at interior to understand how it functioned, changed during renaissance with andreas vesalius. Biomedical breakthrough was made possible through the humanist impulse o o. The desire to not simply take on faith. See for oneself what is going on within the human body. Did dissection to prove what galen said was correct. Scientific revolution: knowledge of the body but few cures. Industrial revolution: knowledge of prevention but unsure why it worked. Disconnect: knowing about the body, knowing how to cure (some) diseases. Patient: individual-->machine: rather than thinking of each person as having their own right, patient has become more machine like (impersonal, disease: descriptive-->technical, empirical. Development of laboratory medicine (19th c. : alchemists such as robert bacon used laboratories in their alchemical pursuits, but now: Controlled experimentation: all variables held constant, except for one. James lind: tried to figure out a cure for scurvy.
