The Failure of Scientific Medicine: Davis Inlet as an Example of Sociopolitical Morbidity
The social and economic history of a Labrador coastal town is reviewed with particular reference to the roles of the Church, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the medical profession. Objective indicators of the current health status of the community are presented, and the major causes of ill-health...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:2218186 2023-05-15T16:00:09+02:00 The Failure of Scientific Medicine: Davis Inlet as an Example of Sociopolitical Morbidity Scott, Richard T. Conn, Selina 1987-07 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2218186 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21263779 en eng http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2218186 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21263779 Features Text 1987 ftpubmed 2013-09-01T14:02:29Z The social and economic history of a Labrador coastal town is reviewed with particular reference to the roles of the Church, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the medical profession. Objective indicators of the current health status of the community are presented, and the major causes of ill-health in Davis Inlet are discussed. Comparison is made with Rudolph Virchow's assessment of the causes of a typhoid epidemic in Upper Silesia in 1848. The subsequent evolution of medicine from a socio-political to a scientific model is reviewed briefly. The authors conclude that the medical profession has embraced the scientific model to the point of virtually excluding the socio-political one, even though social, political, economic, and cultural alienation remain major causes of morbidity and mortality. In so doing, the profession promotes ill-health. Text Davis Inlet PubMed Central (PMC) Davis Inlet ENVELOPE(-65.594,-65.594,59.209,59.209) Rudolph ENVELOPE(-62.433,-62.433,-64.900,-64.900) |
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The social and economic history of a Labrador coastal town is reviewed with particular reference to the roles of the Church, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the medical profession. Objective indicators of the current health status of the community are presented, and the major causes of ill-health in Davis Inlet are discussed. Comparison is made with Rudolph Virchow's assessment of the causes of a typhoid epidemic in Upper Silesia in 1848. The subsequent evolution of medicine from a socio-political to a scientific model is reviewed briefly. The authors conclude that the medical profession has embraced the scientific model to the point of virtually excluding the socio-political one, even though social, political, economic, and cultural alienation remain major causes of morbidity and mortality. In so doing, the profession promotes ill-health. |
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