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Getting Started

s you will learn in this chapter, many people have contributed to finding the causes
and cures of illness, injuries, and other disabling conditions. Others have identified
A different body parts and their functions. Some notable discoveries include Louis
Pasteur’s identification of the process that makes milk safe for human consumption. This

process is called pasteurization, in honor of the founder. Bartolommeo Eustachio discov-
ered the tube leading from the ear to the throat, an important finding that was named
Eustachian tube after the discoverer. Others include the Salk vaccine to prevent polio
(named after Dr. Jonas Salk) and the Roentgen Ray (now called x-ray) after Wilhelm

Roentgen the founder.
Assume you could find a cure for or identify a cause of a disease or illness, such as
cancer, childhood arthritis, hepatitis C, autism, or asthma. Write your condition and cure
(or cause) on a 3 × 5 card, name it, and share your discovery with the class. Why did you

choose this particular disease or condition?

SECTION

1.1 History of Health Care

Background
Health care has developed and changed throughout history. Knowing the history
of health care helps you understand current procedures, practices, and philoso-
phies. The experiences and discoveries of the past led to the advances of today.
Today’s achievements could not have occurred without the trials and errors of the
past. When you understand the primitive beginnings of medicine, you appreciate
the advances made during the past 5,000 years.

Objectives
When you have completed this section, you will be able to do the following:

• Match key terms with their correct • Research and report on possible
meanings. advances in medicine for the
twenty-first century.
• Identify scientists and explain what
they contributed to medicine. • Explain the origin of medical ethics
and the impact of medical advances
• Choose one era in the history of
health care and explain how health on ethics.
care technology changed. • Compare health care in the past
• Discuss advances in medicine in the with health care in the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries.
twentieth century.
• Explain current trends in health care.

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