Health Sciences 3400A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Bubonic Plague, Hunter-Gatherer, Industrial Revolution
30 Dec 2017
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Lecture 13 balancing individual and communal rights flashcards. Agricultural revolution: hunter gatherer society, agricultural revolution, hippocratic corpus, bubonic plague (1347-1700, industrial revolution (1750-1900) Shortlife span mainly because not having enough food. Importantthat everybody in the group is healthy and living. Massmigration to cities, cramped work areas with poor ventilation, trauma formachinery, toxic exposures to heavy metals, dust, and solvents. Embrace ofdemocracy, citizenship, reason, rationality, and the socialvalue of intelligence (the value of information gathering) Inthe early 1800s jeremybentham and his disciples developed the philosophyof utilitarianism whichprovided a theoreticunderpinning for health policy and wider social policies. Individual liberty: everybody has the right to be in control of their own health. But it could have indirect effects on other people. Means you are free to do what is right, not whatever you want. Mills: can harm oneself as long as the person doing so is not harming others.
