SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Soho, Rockefeller Family, Libido

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

The bottom line: professions develop authoritative constructions. Medicine was based on what was observed and observable: limited, aristotle"s 4 humors, phrenology. Leeching used to be a standard medical treatment. 18th century medical education: stage 4 of cruelty: using the hanged criminals bodies to study for science. Believed when christ returned he would resurrect the dead but not if your body was in pieces which is why no one donated their body to science and it was the ultimate punishment for criminals. Graverobbers were known as resurrection men because they would dig up a body and bring it to the medical school and they would get paid. Dr. john snow studied epidemiology: people thought bad air in london was causing disease, snow studied the cholera outbreak and found that the. The most important medical advances in history were realizing we needed to separate sewage and drinking water and that we need to wash our hands.