SOCI 390 Final: FINAL REVEIW.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology (Arts)
• Course: SOCI 390
• Professor: Sarah Berry

Document Summary

Aboriginals had wide range of health care practices, medical practitioners, treatments (plans, spirituals leaders: serious problems seen as due to moral regression ex. 19th c - tension among practitioners - wanted to gain monopoly - over certain groups/ideas. Homeopathic practitioners - first legally recognized in canada, first to have board and licensing exam. Allopathic practitioners denounced homeopathic providers as frauds, threats to science. Self-regulatory licensing, professional recognition - 1869 - college of physicians and surgeons of. 3 types of medical education: apprenticeship, proprietary schools, university. Push for evaluation of medical schools - standardization. Flexner report (1910) - establishment of biomedicine - affected face of medicine and who could practice: recommendation. Curriculum - 4 years - standardized as best as possible across all schools. Faculty = full time - better laboratory instruction, more investment in research, funding schools standardize/recognize exclusionary ex. minorities: effects. Training system - integrated within university systems - easier to. Research - standardized medical training, alignment with science.