Unhooking the Hookworm was a film released by the International Health Division of the Rockefeller foundation in the hopes of reducing the burden of Hookworm disease in the United States and abroad. It is a silent film about 10 minutes long, with intermittent slides containing english text. The goal of these slides is to explain how to recognize, prevent and treat hookworm disease. It follows the story of a young boy in the American South who runs barefooted around his outhouse and picks up hookworm. He is brought to a doctor by his father, where the doctor gives him medicine and sends him on his way. The film’s success in America meant “Copies were distributed to Australia, Borneo, China, Colombia, Dutch Guiana, Egypt, India, Jamaica...etc” (Rockarch.org) However, the movie was only translated into “Spanish, French, and Portuguese” (Rockarch.org), notably, many of the countries it was sent to speak languages other than the four it was presented in. Unhooking the Hookworm is important because it demonstrates a representative lack of foresight by Western medical professionals in the exportation of their medical techniques abroad. The familiar sights of America lose their context, and the details of the movie are lost when the audience is assumed …show more content…
Where I to write history related to medicine, I would use Unhooking the Hookworm to illustrate the broader problem of the nearsightedness of Western medicine. While the film may have been effective in America, the ability of the film to educate abroad must be brought into question. The fact that the film was notably not translated into Chinese or Arabic, but was distributed to China and Egypt, means there were likely large crowds of people watching this film in complete confusion. The inability of the IHD to create a product suitable for exportation and effective implementation mirrors well the problems eradication campaigns themselves faced when moved from their countries of genesis to their countries of
The life and death of Henrietta Lacks is a cautionary tale that reflects the inherent contradiction between the stated purpose of medical research to provide benefit to humankind and the reality of blatant profiteering in the name of the advancement of
The author’s emphasis on the meager shipping and handling of infected remains tells the audience that these errors can cause an
Science and ethics have been colliding back and forth for centuries. Science want to discover new technologies to help people and for other selfish reason. People want medical help to save their loved ones. Many times scientists have sacrificed the good of a few for the needs of many. In Rebecca Skloot's modern day investigative biography The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot uses Pathos to develop the themes of immorality and unethical behavior of medical science.
Due to their little knowledge doctors and scientist had taken advantage of them. Africans Americans for them it seemed as if they were the new foreign exchange student in a classroom were everyone speaks a different language, (pg16) Skloot mentioned “For Henrietta, walking into Hopkins was like entering a foreign country where she didn’t speak the language. She knew about harvesting tobacco and butchering a pig, but she’d never heard the words such as cervix or biopsy……” Due to here education most African Americans only went to the hospital when it deemed necessary to them. They would go to the hospital with faith and trust that towards the doctors.
For many years, the creation of man-made medicine has gone through many trial and error, progress and complication. One major way in which medicine has thrived was through the form of experiments, some on animals, plants and humans. Unfortunately, certain medical experiments have had drastic consequences. The Tuskegee Experiment was a medical experiment used to study the long-term effects of syphilis of not treated. In 1932, the Public Health Service together with the Tuskegee Institute, began an experiment to record the long-term effects of syphilis which also became a strict medical treatment programs for blacks.
The doctors were unsanitary. They didn’t wash their instruments at all. This caused diseases to quickly spread. But the doctors did a lot for the little amount of knowledge they knew about diseases and their lack of effective medicines. Hospitals were also unsanitary.
The Civil war physicians that studied gangrene lesion used the microscope which revealed dead tissue blood vessels in the area occluded with “stagnant blood” and these microscopic organisms they observed was a result of infection. According to Adams “the gangrene patient might see a black spot the size of a dime, appear on his healing wound, and watch with horrified interest its rapid spread until his whole leg or arm was but a rotten, evil-smelling mass of dead flesh” Even though they did not establish bacteriology the physicians understood that the disease was destructive. This led to studies of the disease and there was a demand for cleanliness and the use of disinfectants in hospitals. This demonstrates a positive impact of the Civil War on medicine because physicians
Medicine was not knowledge at the time and often led soldiers to spread illness rather
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Between the years of 1800 and 1900, the North American social and political landscape changed by the presence of so many African people, who brought with them several centuries of civilization. Africanized America in terms of medicine. In this paper, I will be exploring the influence of Africans on the American traditions of medicine. Africans, and their descendants, contributed to the richness and fullness of American culture from its beginnings. Their contributions in early America, for which they have received little or no credit, include the development of vaccines (including vaccination for smallpox), cures for snake bites, birthing procedures, introduction of therapy, and cure for vaginal fistula, foundation of face surgery and introduction
After the classical period the Islamic civilization showed an advancement in a variety of different aspects of their culture. They adopted a lot of it from earlier civilizations but had had a massive contribution on their part. The effect of this is that the Muslim culture and intellectual ideas were very long lasting. The achievements of the Islamic empires contributed to the development of their Golden Age.
Last week I obtained knowledge on the history of medicine. Specifically, I learned how African Americans played an essential role in the history of medicine. Prior to last week I was not well-versed in the history of medicine. However, I was knowledgeable on how African Americans slaves were used for medical research. Slaves were the test subjects for various revered doctors at that time.
Mouth to anus combination is the only characteristic of the movie, done by a frenzied doctor who specifies in Siamese twins. Tom Six, the director of this menacing film was enthused by the Nazi Medical Experiments from World War II, which
This is a novel especially relevant to any Third World country which is dependent on the largesse of the developed nations. KEYWORDS Pharmaceutical, corporate greed, TB, Third World, dypraxa Though Edward Said in his Orientalism and Frantz Fanon in his The Wretched of the Earth have discussed extensively the way the West has resorted to cultural and racial stereotyping of the East, it is not often an author
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