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16 Cards in this Set
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Public Health Issues in 19th Century NY |
- Urban slums/poor living conditions - Poor working conditions/widespread disease -Child labor abuses |
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Griscom Vs. Hartley |
Griscom: -NY's City Inspector - Physician and a quaker - Beleived that insanitary conditions and health issues were the fault of ignorant individuals - Beleived that the way to cure these ailments was to turn to already available knowledge - more worried about the betterment of the poor environment than the people living in that environment Harltey: - presbyterian and leader of the Ney York Association for the Poor - believed that there were environmental factors that exacerbated the demoralization of poverty - agreed that it was immoral to be unsanitary and unhealthy - believed that it was a moral responsibility to maintain public health - believed that original sin was the route of human misery |
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The Social Gospel |
2 main founders: 1. Washinton Gladden 2. Walter Rauschenbusch -believed that it was our societal responsibility to apply Christian ethics to the betterment of the sick and poor |
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Schools of thought within the social gospel movement |
1. the private solution to individual issues of health and sanitation (a private responsibility) 2. societies responsibility to care for people who are sick or poor (a public responsibility) |
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Factors that preceded and influenced the social gospel movement |
1. The Second Great Awakening: emphasis on societal issues like drinking, prostitution, and slavery 2. The abolitionist and temperance movements |
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The enlightenment and its impact on religion and medicine |
- Europe 1600-1700s - Focus on solving individual issues -distancing selves from superstition/religion - thus dividing religion and health |
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Role religion plays in the relationship between religion and health |
1. Coping mechanism 2. Hope/social support 3. Behavioral modifier |
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Amundsen's characterization of the relationship between religion and science (4) |
1. Medicine subsumed under religion 2. Religion and medicine partially related 3. Religion and medicine completely separate (some say America is currently in this category) 4. Religion subsumed under medicine |
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Cosmology and Causality in African indigenous worldview |
1. Binary between the human world and the invisible world of spirits 2. Things that happen in the human world are caused by the spirits in the indigenous world |
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Witchcraft and illness |
1. Witchcraft as another explanation or causal factor of ailments and/or misfortunes -Witchcraft can be inherent, inherited, or developed -Witchcraft is typically not performed on strangers and is done for the witch's benefit-Modern witchcraft is seen as more of a metaphor but it is seen as a possible cause for why a misfortune occurred in a particular person's life |
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Leprosy and its relevance |
-Leprosy was seen as a punishment from God -Even after physicians had proven a biological cause for Leprosy, patients were still ostracized -As a highly visual disease, leprosy patients were often separated from society |
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Medical Missionaries |
- Christian men and women responsible for spreading the word of God to convert people - Usually travel to another country to convert people of different faith or no faith 1. Health and healing are seen as a Christian obligation 2. Heathenism in worlds of alternate faith strife with illness and misfortunate are seen as evidence of the kingdom of God and an opportunity for good 3. Medicine as instrument of European Christianity and weapon against heathenism |
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African responses to western missionary medicine |
1. Total Acceptance 2. Appropriation 3. Rejection |
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Martin Marty's view on how American understand healing |
1. auto-genesis: normally seen as spiritual 2. Synergism: tap into every possible resource for healing (most Americans exist here) 3. Empathy: recognize that God exists but do not look to him for healing 4. Main-line: all attention turned to the capacity of God to heal, sometimes refuse medical treatment |
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Peter Brown and the relationship between religiosity, health, and the poor |
-Regions experiencing high rates of poverty experience a high correlation with religiosity - the more poverty, the more faith - Typically these regions have less access to health care, poorer sanitation, and living conditions and are therefore living in poorer health -Sometimes poor health humbles people which offer an opportunity for repentance |
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The concept of singularity in AI |
-the ability to create superintelligent machines that can think, feel and reason causes an issue with maintaining the duality between humans and machines -Machines that can become autonomous and redesign themselves at an ever-increasing rate |
