PUBH2209 Exam Notes

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Comprehensive PUBH2209 notes on the topics mentioned below. Used this as my notes to the exam and got an HD. • Ancient Egyptian medical thought and practice • The “Columbian exchange” of infectious diseases • Scientific developments from and their impact on medicine, focusing on the following THREE topics: approaches to anatomy (Vesalius), theories of circulation (Harvey), and iatrochemistry (Paracelsus) • Social and medical perceptions and impacts of epidemics, with a focus on the Black Death in the 1300s and the plague outbreaks of the 1600s • Major developments in health and medicine during the Victorian era • A general conception of the changing explanations and management of mental illnesses from 1750 to the modern day • Approaches to health and medicine under authoritarian political systems, with a focus on Nazism/Hitler’s Europe