{"id":174,"date":"2017-02-21T05:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/?p=174"},"modified":"2019-01-04T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:10:57","slug":"inventing-modern-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/inventing-modern-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventing Modern Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our next three class sessions all bring us up through the 19th century to the early 20th century in medical \/ health practices, professionalization, and technological and scientific progress.<\/p>\n

For Wed 2\/22<\/strong> Reading: Porter Blood and Guts<\/em>, Ch 4-5 “The Laboratory” and “Therapies,” and Burnham Health Care in America<\/em>, Ch 4 “Setting the Stage for Modern Medicine and Health, 1850s-1880s.” Bonus links: Koch’s Postulates<\/a>; Lydia Pinkham’s Ladies Health Pamphlets<\/a>; Typhoid Mary<\/a><\/p>\n

For Mon 2\/27<\/strong> Reading: Porter Blood and Guts<\/em>, Ch 6-7 “Surgery” and “The Hospital” and Burnham Health Care in America<\/em>, Ch 5-6 “The Age of Surgery and Germ Theory, 1880s-1910s” and “Physiological Medicine, 1910s to 1930s”<\/p>\n

For Wed 3\/1<\/strong> Reading: Burnham Health Care in America<\/em>, Ch 7 “Physicians, Public Health and Progressivism.” Response #2 is due<\/strong><\/span>, posted to the Response Journal on Blackboard by classtime 12:30 pm. Prompt:<\/strong> discuss some of the key changes in medical technology, perception, or practice from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in a 400+ word response. Be specific<\/em>; quote from our readings; think about which of these changes were most important in the development of “modern” health care. Pro tip<\/em>: Compose and proofread your response offline, and then cut\/paste into the Blackboard platform.<\/p>\n

Bonus links: Radium Girls<\/a><\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> This section of the class contains a lot of reading, obviously. A STRONG suggestion as you go: identify key terms and add them to the class Glossary on Blackboard.<\/p>\n

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Medical students observe a surgery at Yale Medical School around 1900<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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