HIST 2403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Jim Crow Laws, Triangulum Australe, Fauvism
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Medicine and microbes: assumed bad blood caused diseases and led to leeching, only anestheic was alcohol, 1848 cholera outbreak led to sewage system in london, louis pasteur discovered bacteria. Developed vaccines against anthrax, rabies, and other diseases. Pasteurizaion: robert koch isolated tuberculosis and cholera, use of anestheics, chloroform used during child birth. The revoluion in physics: x-ray, marie sklodowska curie radium, max planck body radiated energy in irregular clumps (quantum theory, albert einstein theory of relaivity. Cultural crisis: the fin-de-siecle and the birth of modernism. Fin-de-siecle: turn of the century (used to describe cultural crisis) Modernism: arisic and literary movements from late 19th century through the 1950s. The fin-de-siecle: rising crime rates, increase in use of drugs/alcohol, novels contributed to fear of degeneraion. Tightening gender boundaries: feminist were labeled as dangerous and degenerate, 1870 women moved into university educaion and paid employment, homosexuals were singled out, corporate capitalism undercut liberal masculine ideal, 1879 sperm and egg.
