History 380 Final Exam Study Guide
Key Terms
Anti-Vaccination issues:
Local autonomy
Dignity of the body
Religious opposition
Anti-medical sentiment
Civil liberties
Criteria to evaluate when thinking about vaccinations:
Authoritarian v. libertarian ideolo
History 380
The Plague & Anatomical Idea
Contemporary Explanations for the plague
Medical explanations:
Contagious
Miasma
Astrology
Humoral explanations
Key Issues
Tenacity of dominant ideas/worldviews
Split between medicine and surgery
Struggle between t
Natural History of Disease Lecture
Natural history of disease refers to the progress of a disease process in an
individual over time, in the absence of intervention.
The process begins with exposure to or accumulation of factors capable of
causing disease
History 380 Diseases in Europe during the 19th Century Lecture
Smallpox
is an acute, highly contagious viral disease, often fatal, that appears to have
been completely eradicated.
After a 12-day incubation period, the first phase was marked by high fever,
Health and Assumptions Homework
Directions: Below are several definitions of health taken from 20th-century elementary and high
school health textbooks. Please read them carefully before class on Monday. Consider the
ways that these authors define health
History 380 History of Infectious Diseases Lecture
Infectious agents have probably always caused disease in humans.
Smallpox has been described in ancient Egyptian and Chinese writings and may
have been responsible for more deaths than all other infectiou
History 380 Disease Reemergence Notes
Emerging diseases are those that have recently appeared within a population, or whose
incidence or geographic range is increasing rapidly.
Diseases can emerge or re-emerge due to:
appearance of a previously unknown ag
History 380 Pubic Health History Lecture
British Public Health Act of 1848
A new way of seeing and imagining populations and problems
Veneer of objectivity
New form of environmentalism
A tool of mobilization
The expert becomes important
A new way of seein
The Sanitary Idea & Public Health
The Sanitary Idea
Prevention of disease
The redefinition of disease
Key role for the state
Medicine and Progressivism
Origins
Discipline of public hygiene (hygiene publique) in France of 1820s
Groups rather than individua
Vaccination Act of 1888 Lecture
Vaccination Act of 1888
In 1889 the government set up a Royal Commission to investigate all aspects of
vaccination; its final report appeared in 1896. The majority of Commissioners concluded
that vaccination prevented small
Natural History of Disease Notes
That the natural history of disease is the unchecked progression of disease in an
individual.
Natural history ranks alongside causal understanding in importance for the
prevention and control of disease.
The technical a
History 380 Epidemic Diseases Lecture Notes
Different diseases, in different communities, show different patterns of expected
occurrence: a persistent level of occurrence with a low to moderate disease level
is referred to as an endemic level a persisten
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