Medicine, medical dominance, and public health

Title: Medicine, medical dominance, and public health
Creator: Hornosty, Jennie; Germov, John
Relation: Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology p. 230-253
Relation: http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780195431988.html
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2012
Description: Medicine today is the dominant health profession. However medicine as we know it is a fairly recent phenomena, dating back only to the late nineteenth century. How did medicine develop, and how has it achieved such dominance? This chapter provides a brief overview of the history of scientific medicine and the underlying assumptions of medicine today.
Description: Canadian
Subject: origins of medicine; medical dominance; health promotion; public health
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066899
Identifier: uon:18228
Identifier: ISBN:9780195431988
Language: eng