“Critics of physician assisted suicide believe that doctors like Jack Kevorkian are doing nothing less than playing God“ (Gay 47.) But as Karl Barth said, “It is for God and God alone to make an end of human life” (Lee 17.) Physicians were never meant to take the lives of others. In fact, the job of a physician is very clear, and killing their patients is not in the description. “Many physicians say they would be clouding their roles as healers if they helped patients to die” (Buchanan 36.)
Also, the idea was very slow to be accepted because many people such as inoculators were opposed to it because they thought they would lose business and people thought that something could go wrong or they could die, so they didn’t want to use it. The Royal Society also didn’t want to accept it because they didn’t know Jenner as he was only a country doctor and because sometimes it worked, but them sometimes; unfortunately, it didn’t work and people died from it. On the other hand, a reason why he was so important was the fact that Jenner was responsible for getting rid of a huge killer disease, known by the name of smallpox. So, this saved many lives, as when the government strictly enforced that the vaccination was compulsory, the number of deaths rapidly decreased. He also had the government support and was the first public health programme to be supported by the government, so a lot of people then supported him He used many scientific methods to show the vaccine in progress.
During the middle ages, people still used Galen’s ideas and Dioscorides book of herbal cures, along with religion. When the Romans left Britain, it became a Christian society, so rather than looking to a myriad of gods, people prayed and worshipped one God. People also started to blame the devil for illness. With this change in religion came new ideas on how to stop and cure disease. A group of people, known as flagellants would whip themselves and torture themselves, in the belief that if they punished themselves god would not need to punish them with disease or illness.
Although there was significant progress, however there was also regress as the Egyptians didn’t dissect the dead bodies, instead wrapped them up and put them in jars due to religious beliefs about afterlife. Up to this point in time, religion was a main factor in the regress of medicine, as people used supernatural methods of healing instead of practical methods of healing oneself. Until a revolutionary physician named Hippocrates told the Greeks to stop relying on supernatural methods and start trying more practical methods of treatment. The Greeks made a huge impact in anatomical and surgical discoveries as they began dissection and vivisection. Dissection and vivisection helped in anatomical discoveries as by dissecting and vivisecting an animal, you find out about the internal parts of that creatures body, how they function and their relation to the human body.
How did people explain the plague and how did they treat its victims? What roles did science and the Church play? Most believed the plague was a punishment and was God’s way of wiping out mankind. Victims of the plague were “treated” many different ways but because of the lack of medical technology the plague was untreatable. Science didn’t have much of a role although there were a few attempts at learning more about the plague.
He noted the observation and intended to try it on infected wounds and also planned to send a letter of his findings to his brother, but never managed to. Penicillin was first used on an infected nurse and it worked but Lister never developed it further. Fleming had a few limits towards the development of penicillin because he didn’t have the facilities to research or develop it further. Also he had no funds, so therefore couldn’t create mass production of penicillin or research it. A drawback of Fleming’s work was that he kept changing his mind in his published book on how he discovered penicillin, this led people to believe that he was lying and caused people to not trust his work.
There has been many debates to weather doctors should be able to refuse lazy/old patients expensive treatments as they are not beating their habits, so why should doctors have to give these patients the treatment when they are not making the effort to get their body in a fitter, healthier state, and there is people out there desperate for surgery who have made the effort to be in shape and they can’t get the surgery because it is too expensive,but on the otherwise, why should these people have to suffer without help? In hospitals all over the world there are smokers, overweight people and alcoholics receiving the same treatment as other patients that are healthier and choose not to harm their bodies by using harmful substances, which I personally think is an absolute disgrace. As these people who abuse their bodies have the same “right” to these expensive treatments even though some of the substances they choose to eat, drink or inhale cause damage, disease and infections within the human body, and not enough is been done about it. People that work for the telegraph would agree as on their website it states "Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone." - this information can be found on -http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576704/Dont-treat-the-old-and-unhealthy-say-doctors.html Some doctors say old people may not be healthy enough to survive operations and could be life threatening and doctors are allowed to discriminate old people if they think they really need the operations to cure/help them, however the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) says "doctors must not discriminate against patients who have brought their illnesses upon themselves.
Ethical Health Care Issues There are many ethical health care situations that are experienced by medical professionals and his or her patients. An ethical health care issues are the refusal from a patient needing a blood transfusion. The refusal from the patient can be based on his or her religious background; example Jehovah Witnesses. This particular religious group believes that blood represents life so the refrain from taking blood out of respect for God. When a Jehovah Witness receives a blood transfusion they must denounce themselves from the group, consequently causing segregation from his or her congregation, families, and friends.
nful Also, I think this trend is on the speedy rise because not much attention is given to it in the church today for fear of indirectly driving away and losing our already handful members. Jesus didn't change to be like the world to gain audience and followers? He stuck to who He was and yet still made a marvelous impact. Why then do we want to conform to the world in our quest to make them disciples and followers of Christ? The church is built on Christ Jesus, and not on people.
Factors which hindered the development of this disease were society’s reluctance to admit there was an outbreak which initially took place amongst the Gay community, politicians also stonewalled the issue for fear of their constituents losing faith in their ability to govern due to the religiously dominant rule, as well as individuals who were afraid to stand up and give the bare facts of what was really taking place in society. They had the perfect opportunity to stop the spread of this disease and they chose not to, all for fear of being ostracized by the general public. 6. Other major science disciplines I think that are involved in the practice of public health include, biology, immunology, rheumatology, politics, jurisprudence, environmental science, water treatment/management, waste management, and ecology to name a few. 7.