factors affecting the understanding of causes of illness and disease
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- Main factors affecting understanding of the causes of illness and disease
- Individuals
- main - Pasteur + Koch
- Minor - Lister and Tyndell
- attitudes in society
- help and hindrance
- more interested in rational explanations for disease
- people's reluctance to change their minds slowed the spread of new information
- Technology
- Microscopes - see microbes but more difficult for viruses
- Petri dish invented by John petri - able to see microbes more clearly
- Institutions
- British government
- not helpful as not interested in evryday life
- as more people gain the ability to vote, gov. became more helpful
- didn't not promote Germ Theory
- British government
- Science
- improved communications enabled scientists to work with each other
- strong desire to prove new theories and provide practical solutions to scientific problems
- Individuals
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