Illness & Wellness in the 20th Century
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"...At the same time that you had these medical advances, you had a world that’s becoming even more tightly connected. Air travel, in particular, has connected disparate communities with a sort of immediacy that allowed the spread of diseases. [...] So the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have consistently had to deal with this threat of a worldwide pandemic, of a disease that spreads very rapidly and almost uncontrollably through the global population..."
Key Terms
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Key Terms, ctd
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Guided Viewing Questions
- What key advances improved health outcomes in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?
- What new challenges did medicine and the health professions face in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?
- In what ways are these advances and challenges related to an increase in globalism?