SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Deinstitutionalisation, Caffeine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2101
• Professor: Kristen Tole

Document Summary

18th-19th c almshouses - 18th-19th c almshouses you relinquished all your rights when. Formal care: hospitals you went for care, it was for criminals, the poor, not wealthy sick people. Morality and mortality, if you could demonstrate your worth, your ability to work". Patients traded individual right for health care: when you put yourself in the care of a. Total institutions physician, you had to do everything they told you to do. Routines and bodily regulation: caffeine and spices are bad, exercise becomes a routine thing. Resistance to care meant punishment, they could declare you insane. Rise in private hospitals (early 20th century) Could have their private physicians treat them. 1873-1920: 178 hospitals to over 5000 (changes in population, war creates a new category of sick and ill) Focus on acute care rather than chronic illness government endorsed. Today: outpatient care whenever possible we like this because housing people costs money, there is not enough room for patients.