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Disease
1) Describe some heroic and courageous scientists who fought against the scientific
establishment for your health and well-being.
2) Why are autopsies done? What was an unintended consequence?
3) Who is Ignaz Semmelweis? What did he think was the cause of puerperal fever?
4) What was Joseph Lister’s contribution to the germ theory of disease?
5) Who or what killed President Garfield?
6) Have doctors learned to wash their hands?
7) What was Louis Pasteur’s contribution to the germ theory of disease?
8) What was Robert Koch’s contribution to the germ theory of disease?
9) What was Alexander Fleming’s contribution to the germ theory of disease?
10) What were Florey and Chain’s contribution to the germ theory of disease?
11) What was Selman Waksman’s contribution to the germ theory of disease?
12) What causes a bacterium to become disease resistant?
13) What is epilepsy?
14) Which hormones mediate stress-related diseases? How?
15) How can phenylketonuria, a genetic disease, be managed by diet?
16) Mutations in which kind of genes increase the risk for cancer?
17) What is medicalization?
18) What is geneticization?
19) Describe several techniques used to diagnose disease.