HIST 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pus, Antinomy, Alchemy
18 Aug 2016
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Lect 2- history: medical theory & practice 1: the western medical tradition. Mortality transition (1870-1930 ce: increased life expectancy, decreased crude death rate number of deaths per 1000 people, decreased mortality, massive decline in infant mortality, decrease in infant contagious disease. Slide 10: massive decline in infant mortality. Slide 11: the effect that so many children are dying that it drags down the avg. life exp. Slide 12: 1900- most of the top 10 causes of death are contagious diseases from bad living/work conditons, 2007- most common cause of death was heart disease, causes of mortality transition. Better standard of living-inc. wages, inc, food to eat. The 07" causes are more age related compared to. 1900 because those are more infantile diseases because they couldn"t live long enough to experience these diseases caused by old age. To help with labor on the farm etc so they are an economic benefit to the family.
