Question

What has changed over time in the way people view disease? What has stayed the same?

Answer 1

You mean how people now view diseases

Answer 2

Yeah, sorry I copied this out of my online class.

Answer 3

Well we know we have a better understanding of it

Answer 4

We changed the fact we have medicine to prevent certain diseases but not all (Cancer)

Answer 5

Yeah, I understand that I was just looking for other opinions/ideas in case I missed any

Answer 6

oh

Answer 7

It's for an epidemiology class. Any cool ideas other than the obvious? I can't think of anything really clever.

Answer 8

As an example, I am gonna take tubercolisis. It's very old, Hippocrates called it 'phtisis' or consumption. Some others called it 'poverty disease'. In the first decades of XIX century it was linked to romanticism, because poets and music composers died of tubercolisis.
Robert Koch got a microscope from his wife, when he was 28. He observed blood samples from cows killed by what we know today as anthrax, and he noticed small fibres. He isolated the microbe.
One morning, in a stained sample he saw through the microscope blue-stained bacilli: he had finally discovered the microbe that caused tuberculosis

Answer 9

He presented his discovery and showed that this strange disease was the bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Today TB can be cured with antibiotics, discovered by A. Fleming

Answer 10

And I think that's how our understanding of diseases has changed troughout history

Answer 11

Thank you so much! This is actually perfect!