| History 364/H546 | DR. SCHNEIDER |
| History of Medicine and Public Health |
Laboratory Medicine
Deborah Brunton, "The Rise of Laboratory Medicine," in Brunton, 92-117
Which of the following was affected more by the rise of the laboratory medicine in the 19th century: research or teaching?
Which features of the practice of medicine were affected most, and which the least?
Rothman
Robert Koch, "The Aetiology of Tuberculosis (1882)," 319-29
Florence Nightingale, "Notes on Hospitals (1859)," 360-64 (reread)
As was the case with William Harvey 250 years earlier, Koch's method proved to be more important than the specific discovery of the cause of tuberculosis. What was the method of Koch's discovery, and and why was it so important, including to the development of "colonial and imperial" medicine?
From Tropical medicine to Global Health
Michael Worboys, "Colonial and Imperial Medicine," in Brunton, 211-38
Worboys indicates (p. 226) that tropical medicine was first proposed as "a distinct area of medical practice" in 1897. What role did each of the following simultaneous developments play in the emergence of tropical medicine: 1) the expansion of European rule in Africa and Asia, and 2) the discovery of the germ theory?
One question of historical debate is whether tropical medicine was a tool of empire. For the period at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, in what ways did colonial rule influence hospital and laboratory medicine developed in Europe? In what ways did hospital and laboratory medicine influence European colonial rule?
Myron Echenburg, "Pestis Redux: The Intial Years of the Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic, 1891-1901," Journal of World History, 13 (2002), 429-49
What difference did the germ theory make in the last epidemic of plague?