{"id":33,"date":"2010-10-14T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/?p=33"},"modified":"2013-01-09T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:53:21","slug":"frontiers-of-early-20th-century-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/frontiers-of-early-20th-century-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers of early 20th century Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 10\/18 – Please note I added the Disease Project guidelines as a new page, see the tab above. <\/strong>Or you can download the guidelines as a PDF<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

On Monday 10\/18<\/strong>, we will talk about medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – summing up what happened to health care over that previous century & bringing together our learning from the several recently-assigned articles in Leavitt’s reader. What institutions, new scientific findings, and new cultural practices characterized medicine and health care by 1900? Steele’s essay<\/a> helps us synthesize that knowledge; his book (from which this chapter is excerpted) concerns medicine on the American frontier, far from those growing urban hospitals that provided the statistical basis for Duffy and Leavitt’s research.<\/p>\n

Link of the day: Typhoid Mary’s story<\/a><\/p>\n

Your Article Abstract<\/a> is also due Monday (along with the article, if it’s not from the Leavitt reader).<\/p>\n

For Wednesday 10\/20<\/strong>, we’ll begin to hone in how that system was tested–and changed–in the early decades of the 20th century by looking closely at two epidemics in the 1910s: polio, which had a significant outbreak in 1916 (the Rogers article = Leavitt #35); and the devastating 1918 flu pandemic (via an online article<\/a> from Popular Mechanics<\/em> in 2007 – written in light of recent flu scares but prior to the H1N1\/Mexican swine flu outbreak).<\/p>\n

Note: <\/strong>although it seems like the Popular Mechanics<\/em> article has 3 pages, all the text is on the first one! The other 2, for some reason, repeat part of the article but have additional images.<\/p>\n

Links for Wed: Alaska<\/a> – Survivors<\/a> – Rose Worth<\/a><\/p>\n


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