QUESTION ONE:
For each of your three selections, answer the questions in a paragraph. Make sure to answer all parts of the question. Make sure to identify time period, location, and historical significance. Use the sources that are provided which are label Q1
– 1) Identify and explain two grounds on which people opposed the use of anesthetics in the 19th century.
– 2) Define and explain the difference between the concepts of antisepsis and asepsis. Give one historical example of each.
– 3) Define and explain the difference between the concepts of negative eugenics and positive eugenics. Give one historical example of each.
QUESTION TWO:
For this section of the exam, write a short essay analyzing this primary source. Your essay must respond to all of these directions:
1 Identify what kind of document it is.
2 Identify when and where it came from.
3 Identify who was its likely audience.
4 Analyze the message of the source.
5 Explain how the source relates to its specific historical context and to broader course themes.
Take time to structure the argument of your response before you begin writing, and be sure to explicitly reference course readings and materials from lecture to support your argument.
Primary Source
Parke-Davis Popular Advertisement, circa 1933
found in Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, and The Saturday Evening Post
Use the sources that are provided which are label Q2
Transcription of text from primary source:
“This is the lady who was afraid of hospitals. A WEEK ago, this young lady was firmly convinced that her doctor was a heartless creature, her husband unsympathetic, and the world in general engaged in a conspiracy against her.
She was ill–more seriously ill than she thought. And the doctor insisted that the hospital was the best place for her. Her husband added hisinsistence. She protested–but she went.
Today, both doctor and husband are completely forgiven. She is on the road to recovery, she is happy, she is rested physically and mentally. And she realizes that she might now be in a critical condition if it hadn’t been for the hospital and the sympathetic care she received there.
Most doctors have seen this little drama enacted time after time. For it’s only human to let the thought of leaving home cause one to forget the aid, comfort, and safety that are to be found in the hospital.
The hospital is, of course, the place in which is concentrated the equipment that modern science has evolved for the treatment and cure of illness–and the combined knowledge of doctors, pharmacists, nurses, laboratory workers and dietitians. Every member of the hospital staff is trained to care sympathetically and intelligently for the sick. And a hospital is so organized that this service continues for 24 hours a day.
Moreover, the hospital offers peace of mind. There is freedom from such worries as trying to run the house from a sickbed, and from the disturbing feeling that the rest of the family is being “put out”, or worked to the point of exhaustion. With the hundred and one worries of the home left behind, the patient can devote himself or herself to the essential business of getting well.
So if the time comes when your physician advises you, or one of your family, to go to the hospital, don’t try to find reasons for not going, but be thankful that the hospital is there to go to.
PARKE, DAVIS & COMPANY
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
The World’s Largest Makers
Of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products
May 12 is National Hospital Day throughout the United States and Canada. Hospitals will hold “Open House” on this day, and you are invited to visit the hospital in your locality and become better acquainted with the many services which it is prepared to render in time of need.”
QUESTION THREE
Answer your chosen question as fully as possible. Make sure to answer all parts of the question, to make a historical argument that includes a thesis statement, and to provide concrete evidence to back up your claims. Draw your evidence from lectures, discussions, and readings.
• How did medical education in the US develop leading up to and as a result of the Flexner Report? What counted as a good medical education according to Flexner?
Use the sources that are provided which are label Q3
