HIST 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Capital, Cuppers, Speech Balloon
18 Aug 2016
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Mod 2: healers and patients in early america 9/8/15. Healer/med partitioner- sole occupation; could be part time or side job. Hierarchy in the medical field: (imagined: physicians-very learned, med degree, attended university, from wealthy families (needed to have money for college edu); social status, upmost authority in what the patient needed. , gained knowledge of the body through their senses- touch, sight, smell, taste (the patients urine) Classic pose in portraits was of the dr. taking the pulse of the patient. The med degree they received was to make sure they were sufficient to teach others, Practiced mostly in the home of the patients, hospital practice was very rare. Not very many legal restrictions to define who was a really a physician and had the proper credentials. The only thing that mattered was if patients believed you were able to heal them: surgeons- chirowgea worked on the outside of the body; setting fractures, lancing, blood letting.
