History 138:  Science in the U.S.

Class 23 (10/16) 
Medicine and education
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Outline Reworking the relations between science and medicine

Medicine ca. 1800
  Disease as disequilibrium
  Diagnostic and therapeutic localism
  Symptoms and disease

Changes over the 19th century
  Medical universalism
    Clinical observation
    Physiology
  Germ theory and countermeasures

Scientific medicine
  Products
  Methods
  Medical schools
Names and Terms
Primary Secondary
pathogen
pathogenic specificity
bacteriology
asepsis
Abraham Flexner (1866-1959) 
The Flexner Report (1910) 		 heroic medicine
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
Robert Koch (1843-1910)
proprietary medical schools
Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Assignment Abraham Flexner, "California," in Medical Education in the United States and Canada (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910), 188-196.

  What was Flexner's ideal for medical education — prerequisites, course of study, facilities?
  What other sorts of medical education were in existence?
  What are osteopathy and homeopathy? (Look them up in a dictionary if they are not familiar.) What did Flexner think of them?
  What was Flexner most bothered by?
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