SOSC 2110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Health Care In Canada, Morning Sickness, Thalidomide
22 Apr 2014
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Define: colonization occurred europeans brought new food with them like alcohol, sugar, saturated fats. Also diseases such as heart issues, tooth decay, diabetes, and alcoholism. Long term impacts of tuberculosis in aboriginal population, highest deaths under age 30, serious epidemic disease in canada especially with aboriginal"s. 1940s heath stats aboriginals vs. canadians 7x more likely to die of pneumonia 13x whooping cough, 46x measles, 9x influenza. Relates to colonialism because it involved the europeans dominating health and taking over the aboriginal peoples in. Define: outbreak of the flu, spread along through human carriers between 20-40million people were killed, started after ww1. Part 2: define the conquest of illness: healing a individual from sickness/ chronic diseases. Micheal f. the gaze : the doctor looks at you, doesn"t look you at the patient but looks at you as a researcher. Focus on the certain parts of the body. Tech. allows that happens bc it separtes you. (body as machine)
