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diff --git a/markley/hygeia b/markley/hygeia deleted file mode 100644 index 9d92196..0000000 --- a/markley/hygeia +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -Beddoes's Hygeia comes from hygiene, and Greek theology. - -At time of publication, 1802, doctors were often ineffective and -illegitimate because of muddiness between real physicians and quacks and -limited scientific study of new medical treatment. Writer was interested -in increasing scientific interest and legitimacy of medicine. - -Medical Manuals were popular at the time and tried to give the literate -middle class ability to manage their own health (because useful doctors -charged exorbitantly). Beddoes criticizes the majority of the genre, but -is itself a medical manual. -Thesis: health is a social ideal of individual habits ("rules and -regulations") for preventive medicine. - -Beddoes aligns with modern cultural pressure that health is a moral -issue. - -Health is also a relative, sliding scale. The only way to determine -healthfulness is by comparing to an unhealthy person. Also, acquiring -health is a difficult path to determine. - -Pre-germ theory medicine is similar to modern neuromedicine, because the -causes and absolute diagnostics are unclear. But Beddoes's and other -contemporary doctors' missions were to "make disease visible." Medical -tools that make disease more visible change how we understand health and -how to become healthy. - -This course will cover some of these changes and developments in the -19-20th centuries. |