Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine

Rosenberg, Charles E.

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“…In the mid-nineteenth century, psychiatry in Europe and America was seen by many as falling behind other branches of clinical medicine that were rapidly progressing in their ability to define the pathogenesis and etiology of discrete disease entities through pathological and eventually bacteriological research [2]. The discovery by German psychiatrists in 1857 that general paresis, one of the most common forms of what was then called insanity, was connected to syphilitic infection raised new hopes that clinicalpathological correlations would lead to etiological theories and ultimately therapeutic interventions for other forms of mental illness [3].…”

Section: Framing Dementia As a Brain Disease In Early Twentieth-centumentioning

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Framing Confusion: Dementia, Society, and History

Ballenger¹

2017

AMA Journal of Ethics

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This essay will briefly sketch historical changes in the framing of dementia since the late nineteenth century. In broad terms, this period has seen a shift from viewing dementia as a pathological variant of normal aging to viewing it as a distinct disease. Although this broad reframing of dementia was clearly positive in raising awareness and funding for research, it had some negative aspects that should be considered. Caregiving came to seem less important than research aimed at a cure, and the stigma surrounding dementia has, if anything, increased.

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Section: Framing Dementia As a Brain Disease In Early Twentieth-centumentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing Confusion: Dementia, Society, and History

Ballenger¹

2017

AMA Journal of Ethics

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“…19 Against this background, infectious diseases such as TB, have, historically, most commonly been understood and approached in two ways: as matters of contamination and as matters of configuration. 20 From the perspective of contamination -disease is the transfer and progress of infectious pathogens between and within individuals. From the configuration perspective, the focus is not on the pathogen, but on the contexts, structures and power relationships that promote disease expression.…”

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Sociocultural dimensions of tuberculosis: an overview of key concepts

Mason

Degeling

Denholm

2015

int j tuberc lung dis

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Abstract:Biomedical innovations are unlikely to provide effective and ethical TB control measures without complementary social science research. However, a strong interest in interdisciplinary work is often undermined by differences in language and concepts specific to each disciplinary approach. Accordingly, biological and social scientists need to learn how to communicate with each other. This article will outline key concepts relating to tuberculosis from medical anthropology and health sociology. Distilling these concepts in an introductory framework is intended to make this material accessible for researchers in laboratory, clinical and fieldwork settings, as well as to encourage more social scientists to engage with tuberculosis research among target groups critical for successful programmatic interventions. For pedagogical purposes, the relevant concepts are grouped into three categories, (1) structures and settings, which includes overarching themes such as syndemics, local biologies, medicalisation, structural violence and surveillance, (2) practices and processes, encompassing gender, stigma, taboo, and victim blaming, and (3) experience and enculturation, which includes illness narratives, biographical disruption and dynamic nominalism. By helping to navigate this literature, we hope to foster more cross-disciplinary conversations between qualitative and quantitative researchers. Tuberculosis, a quintessential social disease, will be controlled more effectively using a multi-stranded research approach. | P a g e Keywords:Gender, Stigma, Surveillance, Syndemics, Social determinants Abstract in FrenchLes innovations du domaine biomédical ont peu de chances de fournir des mesures de lutte contre la tuberculose (TB) à la fois efficaces et éthiques sans recherché complémentaire en sciences sociales. Cependant, le grand intérêt vis-à-vis du travail interdisciplinaire est souvent entravé par des différences de langage et de concepts spécifiques à chaque approche disciplinaire. Les chercheurs en biologie et en sciences sociales doivent apprendre à communiquer entre eux. Cet article va exposer les concepts clés relatifs à la TB en anthropologie médicale et sciences sociales. Distiller ces concepts dans un cadre conceptuel introductif vise à rendre ce matériel accessible aux chercheurs dans les laboratoires, en clinique et sur le terrain, ainsi qu'à encourager davantage de chercheurs en sciences sociales à s'engager dans la recherche sur la TB au sein des groupes cibles cruciaux en termes de succès des interventions. Pour des raisons pédagogiques, les concepts pertinents sont groupés en trois catégories: 1) structures et contextes qui incluent des thèmes transversaux comme les syndémies, la biologie locale, la médicalisation, la violence structurelle et la surveillance; 2) les pratiques et processus incluant le genre, la stigmatisation, les tabous et la culpabilisation des victimes; et 3) l'expérience et l'inculturation qui incluent les récits de maladies, la rupture biographique et le nominalisme dynamique. En...

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“…Growing knowledge about anatomy in no way implied growing knowledge about effective treatment, in part because anatomical investigations were largely confined to the architecture of the dead, but also because adequate theories of disease causation were absent. In this context, treatments -which might involve the application of purgatives, blood letting, or cupping -were barely distinguishable from those that had been applied some hundreds of years previously (Rosenberg 1992). Surgical investigation was impossible in the absence of effective anaesthesia, which did not appear until the 1830s; and the absence of any understanding of the causes of infection or disease transmission meant that physicians and surgeons were quite unable to conceptualise disease except in its surface appearances.…”

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Art, Science and Placebo: Incorporating Homeopathy in General Practice

May

Sirur

1998

Sociology Health & Illness

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Sociological studies of complementary and alternative therapies have largely focused on the activities and experiences of lay practitioners and users. In contrast, this paper explores some of the ways that a group of medically qualified general practitioners employ homeopathic treatments in their everyday work within the NHS. We explore the ways in which homeopathic medicine accords with an expansive view of the consultation in general practice, and offers doctors a means of avoiding the iatrogenic effects of modern drug treatments. We also point to the ways that this involves practitioners in engaging with contests about the utility of treatments that are rejected by contemporary bioscience.

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Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine

Cited by 399 publications

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Framing Confusion: Dementia, Society, and History

Framing Confusion: Dementia, Society, and History

Sociocultural dimensions of tuberculosis: an overview of key concepts

Art, Science and Placebo: Incorporating Homeopathy in General Practice

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