Factors affecting understanding of the causes of illness and disease - Renaissance
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- Factors affecting understanding of the causes of illness and disease
- Individuals
- Pasteur
- Made the process a lot quicker than it would have been without them
- Koch
- Made the process a lot quicker than it would have been without them
- John Tyndall and Joseph Lister
- Pasteur
- Institutions
- The British Government
- weren't interested in getting involved in everyday life.
- Since Germ Theory offered no practical solution to the problem of disease, they did not promote it.
- More willing to intervene when people got the ability to vote
- The British Government
- Science
- There were strong desires to prove new theories and provide practical solutions to scientific problems.
- Better communication lead to scientists being able to share their theories more easily and so they could be checked and tested faster.
- Technology
- The microscope allowed for higher magnification and clearer images
- Koch's method of growing microbes and dyes.
- Attitudes in society
- People were more interested in finding the reasons behind disease than they had been in previous centuries.
- People were horrified at the state of the cities: the possibility of an outbreak was terrifying.
- It would decrease the amount of people able to work, so business men agreed with looking for a 'cure'
- People's reluctance to change their minds slowed down the spread of Germ Theory.
- Individuals
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