HLTH 385 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Point Process
21 Jul 2018
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Emergence of medical specialization in the 19th century. By the 1880s, specialization became necessary bc of. New collective desire to expand medical knowledge that prompted clinical researchers to specialize because that was perceived to be the only way to rigorously observe cases. Administrative rationality - one can best manage large populations through proper classification. Western societies have moved to increase specialization of labor too medicine simply followed. 3 fundamental pre-conditions for specialization as a manifest necessary for modern medical science. The unification of medicine with surgery, both in professional practice and medical training - this field became too broad and needed internal segmentation. New collective desire to expand medical knowledge via research rather than rapid expansion of knowledge itself - allowed for empirical observation of many cases. Rather than an accumulation of knowledge that brought specialization, it was a new conception of disease specifically the influence of localist pathological thinking and anatomy which focus on organ systems.
