The US in World History
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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
- American Exceptionalism
- Open Door Policy
- Self-Determination
- Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
- Egalitarianism
Guided Viewing Questions
- What is American exceptionalism?
- What important events in world history involved the United States?
- What similarities does the United States have with Western European nations?
- What differences does the United States have with Western European nations?