- 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
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