War helped improve the knowledge also, as the Greeks set up hospitals to help the wounded. Like Hippocrates, Galen believed in the theory of the four humours, however he used opposites to balance the humours. Egyptians had ships arriving from other parts of the world to trade goods, and they brought new herbs and plants with them. This boosted their knowledge of herbal medicine and found more cures to create. The Egyptians didn’t have a lot of methods for surgery, and mainly relied on
The problem that surgeons faced was, “The so-called saddle-nose deformity was particularly difficult to treat because adding to the human body was more difficult then subtracting from it.” The surgeons attempted to build up the noses by using prostheses or bone and cartilage grafts, but these were challenging, time consuming and often not successful. Grafts were shown to not work well so doctors soon began to use a drug called paraffin, which they would inject into the patients skin and a lot easier for them because it required no incisions at all. Paraffin soon after was the go-to material choice for the treatment of the
In Michael Moore’s film, “Sicko” he describes the corruption of America’s health care today while comparing it to the universal health care other countries such as France, England, and Canada are exercising. I am very glad Michael Moore produced this film because although it may not be fair to both sides, it is still very informative and sends out the message that health care companies here in America are making a healthy living a luxurious burden rather than a given necessity. The two articles criticizing his film made it a little clearer of the bias he took part in. I believe the first one, by Tom Charity, was from a more neutral stand point rather than a liberal side, like Michael Moore, or a conservative side, like I believe Stephen Hunter is on. Charity described the truth and the overall message that “Sicko” gave, which was that the “insurance companies are making a killing at their expense”, when in retrospect they are supposed to be saving lives.
He said this as he thought that better nutrition increased the resistance against infections and helped our immune systems to fight them. Although this seems logical, critics say that he doesn’t explain why females, who receive a smaller share of food, lived longer than males. Also how it doesn’t explain why infectious diseases such as measles rose. In the 1950’s improved medical knowledge, techniques and organisations helped to reduce the amounts of deaths. This was due to advances in not just the medical practice but the actual medicine used, for example there were advances in antibiotics.
Penicillin was a great move forward in the progress of the pharmaceutical company; it solved many doctors’ problems and was also a great treatment. The discovery of Penicillin came about form a bacteriologist named Alexander Fleming. I think Fleming was very important in the discovery of penicillin because he came across penicillin by chance, because he did not clear out the agar plate which held staphylococci in, over time this agar plate grew bacteria however Fleming noticed that in a certain part of the plate no mould had been growing because of some sort of substance, Fleming recorded his findings in notes. This means that he was important in the discovery of penicillin because he came across the penicillin and because he recorded his findings this meant he could share his findings with others. After he realised this Fleming arranged many scientific experiments and used his own knowledge to prove and find ways of the penicillin curing people and treating them however he could only proves this on animals because he did a series of tests on animals.
This was one of the main reasons why they gained many followers during the period of the Tsars abdication. Initially the public did think the PG would succeed in helping Russia redevelop from the deterioration of the country that the Tsar was responsible for, however it soon began to show different. They failed to provide food for the country, which is shown through the source of John Reed, an American journalist living in Petrograd in 1917. “Week by week food became scarce.” This will most likely be a reliable source as he is not involved with the Russian politics and government. He merely states what he has seen.
The bombing of Hiroshima was necessary to end the war as it would save many lives as suggests in source A “should adopt a position that rather than throw to this bomb we should have sacrificed a million American and a quarter of a million British live”. The use of the weapon was not justified because it would have saved American lives the statement in
Public health in the middle ages compared with the Roman times is just nonexistent for example the Roman had Aqueducts, fresh water, latrines and sewers however in the middle Ages the people would get their water, from rivers. As well as rivers being water supplies they also worked as sewers where people discarded their waste. These people didn't understand about hygiene and clean water like the Romans. The dirty water resulted in cholera outbreaks and other diseases colonizing. Medical training kind of got better in the Middle Ages because doctors could train in purpose built universities were ran by the church.
Basically Socialized Medical systems are designed to eliminate the insurance industry and marginalize profit while providing health care for all. Socialized Medicine has been around for centuries, although not recognized as such, many people in America have given it a very negative connotation. Socialized medicine is too often associated with socialism and in America’s political arena it has long been rejected, thus an opportunity for a National Socialized Medicine program continues to be just a dream for those that believe in the idea (Ausman, 2007). Often people forget that America already supports socialized medicine to a small portion of its citizens. That is, the Veterans Administration’s health care services and the active duty and reserve military force are covered by a socialized medicine program.
However, there are some philosophies and schools of thought which, when applied to the issue, are more likely to lead one to gain a more thorough understanding of why the action was unethical and should not have been committed. Among these are utilitarianism, Immanuel Kant’s Duty Theory, the definition of terrorism, the Just War Theory, and absolute pacifism. One of the most common philosophical justifications for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan is utilitarianism, arguing that using the nuclear weapons saved more lives in the long run and ultimately reduced the suffering of the greatest number of people. Those that follow this utilitarian rationale support their opinion by using the notion that if the United States had not dropped the bombs, they would have had to invade Japan, which would have resulted in many more American casualties. However, before dropping the bombs, General MacArthur had estimated that about 31,000 American casualties would occur by invading Japan, and calculated that even fewer American lives would be lost by continuing with conventional bombing on Japan and establishing a naval blockade, eventually forcing Japan’s surrender within six months (CSIS.org).