Midterm Flashcards
(41 cards)
determinants of health
- gender
- geography
- context
- genetics
yellow bile
-choleric, violence, vengeful, ambitious
black bile
-melancholy, sadness, sentiment
phlegm
creates tumours, problems of bones, joints, cowardly
blood
sanguine, amorous, happy, quickens spirit, optimistic
How did doctors correct imbalance of humours in the body?
emetics (vomiting), blood-letting, and changes to diet/lifestyle
William Harvey
proved blood was pumped by heart - mid 1600s
Karl Landsteiner (Australian)
1901 - discovered blood groups
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu
a person is a person because of other people
link between poverty and morbidity
social welfare
17th century
- enlightenment
- shift towards secular
- physicians pushed for establishment of hospitals
18th century
-hospitals were now medical rather than religious space
19th century
-expansion of hospitals, clinical teaching and research
20th century
-focus on recovery and cure
What are the 2 branches of training in medicine?
- science
- morality
Who was restricted entry into medical schools? (1800sand 18th century)
- women
- black people
- jews
women attempted to become doctors in the
1800s
Elizabeth Blackwell
1st women to obtain a medical degree in the US
James Barry
Canada’s first female doctor (woman dressed as man)
Emily Stowe
enrolled in NY women medical school and set up practice in toronto
Elizabeth Anderson
first female doctor in England
women gained the right to study for the same qualification
1900 - b/c of WWI
motives for colonialism
“God, Gold, and Glory”
first successful human to human transfusion
-1818, James Blundell