HSS 2121 Final: Full Class Notes HSS2121

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2121
• Professor: Christabelle Sethna

Document Summary

Concepts: what a historian does, what kind of effects a historian has on healthcare. History of medicine: growing eld with many resources, networks of scholars focused on the history of medicine. Why study it: an interest in health/disease + an interest in birth/death/ and the lifespan z. Who"s involved: historians and literature theorists, anthropologists and art historians, cultural studies / women"s studies scholars, philosophers, environmental historians, legal scholars, physiology scholars. Brutal struggle for equal rights for blacks, natives, women, gays. Presentism: tendency to judge the past with the standards of the present. Whiggism: portraying the past as a series of events progressing to a better present. 3: daily life becomes more medicalized, many other sectors of societies become included: pharma, law, ads, politics in uence and status of medicine grows, can be considered disease mongering, selling made up disease to create a market for pro t.