SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: In Vitro Fertilisation, Whig History, Tabula Rasa
15 Dec 2013
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Sosa oct. 15: medicine, science & technology. It"s nothing medical science won"t be able to fix eventually. Think of medicine as scientific, relatively recent development. Science makes progress, medicine claims expertise that other forms of healing couldn t claim. Only healing system based in biochem and scientific findings as compared to other types of healing systems. One of factors helped public accept medicine as best way to treat illness and b/c scientific understood cause of illness and can cure or prevent illness, unlike other laypeople healers. Distancing from other ways of treating illness. Popular support medicine is scientific and medicine Social circumstances may give rise to specific technologies that may not be medically necessary . Whig history discoveries assessed in terms of contributions they made to contemporary medical science. But many discoveries were ignored in their time. What gets accepted is often shaped more by cultural, economic and professional factors than scientific evidence.
