Apartheidlapius Research Paper

Hippocrates and his followers were first to describe many diseases and medical conditions. He is given credit for the first description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic supportive lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease. Herophilus of Chalcedon, working at the medical school of Alexandria placed intelligence in the brain, and connected the nervous system to motion and sensation. Herophilus also distinguished between veins and arteries, noting that the latter pulse while the former do not. He and his

During the period of Apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 the reactions of the South African citizens towards the legal separation of races varied depending on race, ideals and time period. After gold and diamonds were fud inSouthAfrica both the dutch and British wanted the land to themselves, leading to the Boer War from which the Dutch farmers emerged victorious. Following the Boer War and the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the Dutch Boers gained control over the majority of the land in the previously British Cape Colony along with the settlements they had already built, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Blacks in South Africa made up about eighty percent of the population but only lived on ten percent of

The South African Apartheid, instituted in 1948 by the country’s Afrikaner National Party, was legalized segregation on the basis of race, and is a system comparable to the segregation of African Americans in the United States. Non-whites - including blacks, Indians, and people of color in general- were prohibited from engaging in any activities specific to whites and prohibited from engaging in interracial marriages, receiving higher education, and obtaining certain jobs. The National Party’s classification of “race” was loosely based on physical appearance and lineage. White individuals were superficially defined as being “obviously white'' on the basis of their “habits, education and speech as well as deportment and demeanor”; an

The use of the term global apartheid has been on the rise when referring to the existing social, political and economic inequality on the global scale. It is based on the merging of concepts and practices from South-African apartheid alongside globalization. In this paper, we will consider the appropriateness of such term and whether it truly encompasses all aspects of global inequality. We will consider South-African apartheid along with its associated focus on race as well as globalization along with its associated focus on class and nationality. We will examine how these concepts encompass the statist, racialised, classist new world order.

Greek mythology and Asclepius was a minor deity and offspring of a mortal, who became the physician to the soldiers wounded on the battlefields at Troy, even though researchers look at Hippocrates to be the founder of medicine as a science.

Egyptians were considered some of the best doctors in ancient times, starting from the Stone Age and onward. Written documents and cave carvings found from this time period suggests that they were highly advanced for their time, particularly in the impressive knowledge of human anatomy. For example, the Edwin Smith papyrus lay out a myriad of surgical treatments for a certain type of injury, giving many historians insight on how Egyptians operated in the field. (Lawrence 444) The Edwin Smith papyrus was divided into sections: title, examination, diagnosis, and treatment, a clear sign of the vast amounts of understanding in medicine. (Schlager 94) It is said that medicine became a main focus in the civilization due to the fear of illness and

Galen’s writings have had a great influence in the evolution of medicine. From western medicine all the way to the beginning of modern medicine, Galen is referenced in some way. Throughout medical history, Galen’s writings were either agreed with or rejected, either way Galen helps shape what we know today. Galen was a very famous because of is medical journals, and because all of his writings made it throughout many centuries other medical professionals were able to learn and expand on what Galen discovered. Galen was interested in blood, and was convinced that by making a person bleed out, not to death, would rid them of sicknesses.

knowledge, no biology, no doctors and no medicine. Along with Hippocrates came with him the

When Hephaestus was born Zeus and Hera were in an argument. Heras anger built up and she grabbed Hephaestus by the leg and threw him off Mount Olympus. Hera said that he was the most appalling child she had and that she wanted nothing to do with him. Therefore, for nine days and nine nights he fell from Mount Olympus to the seas. He was then brought up by Thetis and Eurynome. Thetis was the god of the sea and the leader of all fifty Nereides. She was married to Peleus who was chosen for her. Eurynome was the third wife of Zeus and she actually caught him as he was falling from Mount Olympus. The two gods raised the boy and taught him all the skills he needed to know. Especially what it take to be an amazing artist. This incident made Hephaestus have to walk with a walking stick. As Hephaestus grew up he became the father of Blacksmiths. Hephaestus developed armor for Archillies, who was in the Trojan War, and many more accessories. Due to the amount of work he did, he always had crud on his clothing. The dirt on his clothing proved his hard work. The act of being a craftsman met a lot to

Andreas Vesalius, Flemish Anatomist and Physician, was born on 1514 in Brussels (currently Belgium) during the reign of the Roman Empire. He was the legacy of many physicians including his father and grandfather, who serviced the Roman Emperor. Vesalius was a student in the University of Louvain and the University of Paris, where he studied medicine. He spent his time comparing Greek documents with Arabic translations and wrote a thesis on the work of Islamic physician and surgeon, Al Razi. Shortly after he received a degree from University of Padua in 1537, immediately then he got assigned as chair of surgery and anatomy. He is best known as the founder and father of the modern science of anatomy. His first Anatomy text book was based on the human dissections he made himself.

During the Hellenistic age, science, in particular knowledge of the human anatomy took vast leaps forward and remained to be used as a source of medical knowledge into the middle ages. The reason for the knowledge of anatomy was due to the exercise of dissection and vivisection in Ptolemaic Egypt with a group named the ‘Dogmatists’ who experimented on criminals. Vivisection is cutting into human flesh while the patient was alive so it was akin to torture. There was another school of thought present in Alexandria at the time, the Empiricists, who didn’t like the practise of dissection, not because they saw vivisection as torture, but because they “rejected dissection of human bodies as superfluous, claiming that surface topography, examination of wounds, and animal analogies offered sufficient opportunity to gain anatomic knowledge commensurate with therapeutic needs or inquisitive desires.” Dissection was highly controversial, which is why Egypt was the only place to practise it. It was torture and would be seen in

Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be considered inferior because of your race? The people of South Africa had to endure racial inferiority during the era of apartheid. The apartheid laws the government of South Africa made led to an unequal lifestyle for the blacks and produced opposition.

As The Greek empire declined, Rome inherited its medical traditions and knowledge. During the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D health standards dropped considerably and outbreaks occurred of life threatening diseases. Galen of Pergamon, a follower of Hippocrates, gathered much of the medical knowledge of the time and added to it his studies of anatomy and physiology (mostly of animals). In Spite of his errors in describing certain anatomical and physiology phenomena, his writing created the foundation for medicine over 1500 years later in Europe. Though Galen created a historical event, he indeed followed and admired one of the

In this thesis the writer “J.Matisonn” writes about how the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) not only addressed issues of crimes against humanity that also affected the Human rights of people but the other thing the TRC did well if anything according to this article it that it also addressed those people , organizations and even institutions who used media and propaganda in order to not only further the cause of the Apartheid government but to hurt so many families and relatives in the process.

opinion of how the country works as he grew up, and when he was 16 the