HSS 2381 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ignaz Semmelweis, Phenylthiocarbamide, Human Eye

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2381
• Professor: Eleanor Riesen

Document Summary

Hss2381 - quantitative methods in health sciences i - intro. Research: goal of research is to reduce/ resolve uncertainty & use statistics as a tool. First step to research to understand reality is asking a question. Galileo galilei(1564-1652) discovered little things go around big things, earth around planet, against catholic church. * ignaz semmelweis(1818-1865) physician in vienna in a teaching hospital, figured out why so many mothers giving birth were dying, discovered bacteria on hands & germs; died in asylum by infection. Alfred wegener (1880-1930) proposed theor(cid:455) of plate te(cid:272)h(cid:374)oti(cid:272)s, earth is(cid:374)"t fi(cid:454)ed a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)e(cid:374)ts (cid:373)o(cid:448)e around. Through our sensory processes: taste, vision, hearing. Limitations on human cognition: reality: taste - Some people can & can"t taste bitter compound ptc (phenylthiocarbamide) = perso(cid:374)al e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e is(cid:374)"t shared by other people, your reality is not the only reality. Human eye is sensitive to wavelengths btw 400 nanometres (nm) -700 nm; 400 nm=violet 700 nm= red.