Illness & Wellness in the Early Modern World
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"...Overall, these changes--improved professionalism, the lab revolution, and new instruments creating or allowing for the medical gaze--improved medical outcomes as we move into the 20th and 21st centuries. But they also created a new medical paradigm in which power in the medical relationship shifted from the patient to the doctor, and that would define 20th-century medicine...."
Key Terms
- Scientific Revolution
- Newtonian Worldview
- Andreas Vesalius
- William Harvey
- Paracelsus
- Miasmatists
- Contagionists
- Humours
- Edward Jenner
- Clinical School
- Lab Revolution
- John Snow
- Louis Pasteur
- "The Medical Gaze"
Guided Viewing Questions
- What is meant by the phrase “Newtonian Worldview?” How did it develop out of the Scientific Revolution? How did it impact medicine?
- Who were the medical practitioners in the early modern period? How did that change in the 19th century? Why?
- How did medicine change and modernize in the 19th century? What role did the clinical revolution (clinical medicine) play? What role did the lab revolution play? What role did new diagnostic equipment and techniques play?
- What is meant by the phrase "the medical gaze?" How did it shape modern medicine?