From 8d641402fecb63353651d79c3a56418faea59a99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:30:30 -0400 Subject: moved to a chronological file list --- markley/01_introduction | 15 +++++++++++++++ markley/02_hygeia | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ markley/hygeia | 29 ----------------------------- markley/introduction | 15 --------------- 4 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) create mode 100644 markley/01_introduction create mode 100644 markley/02_hygeia delete mode 100644 markley/hygeia delete mode 100644 markley/introduction (limited to 'markley') diff --git a/markley/01_introduction b/markley/01_introduction new file mode 100644 index 0000000..067c7f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/01_introduction @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +ENGL Common Policies: https://sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common-policies-fall-2020/ + +- (Common) First Video + - Info next Wednesday +- Reading Journal +- Medical Video (Final Project) +- Class Discussions (ungraded) +- (Common) Multimodal Reflection Portfolio + - Info later in semester +- Most books are available for free, but should buy "The Ghost Map" + - Yellow Wallpaper + - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde + - The Sign of Four + - The Enslaved Women Surgical Patients of J Marion Sims + - The Island of Dr Moreau diff --git a/markley/02_hygeia b/markley/02_hygeia new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d92196 --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/02_hygeia @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +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. 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. diff --git a/markley/introduction b/markley/introduction deleted file mode 100644 index 067c7f9..0000000 --- a/markley/introduction +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -ENGL Common Policies: https://sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common-policies-fall-2020/ - -- (Common) First Video - - Info next Wednesday -- Reading Journal -- Medical Video (Final Project) -- Class Discussions (ungraded) -- (Common) Multimodal Reflection Portfolio - - Info later in semester -- Most books are available for free, but should buy "The Ghost Map" - - Yellow Wallpaper - - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - - The Sign of Four - - The Enslaved Women Surgical Patients of J Marion Sims - - The Island of Dr Moreau -- cgit