Midterm Flashcards
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