Blog Assignment #9

Here are 3 of my 6 sources

Source #1

Porter, Roy. “The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine.” Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Roy porter is a professor in Social History of Medicine. He has teached at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London and at the University of Cambridge and at UCLA about medicine. Roy Porter’s book is about the history of medicine and some of its successes. The purpose of this book not only focus on the history of medicine but it also focus on the history of modern diseases. Roy also writes about the discovery and exploration of therapeutic diagnosis. The audience that Roy intended to write for in this book seems to be directed towards people who want to know more about medicine rather than any other group of people. He seems to write in an easy to read language, so it seems he did not intend to write for a physician. The audience that Roy writes this book for is related to the audience that I intend to write for in my research paper too. This text is written in 2001. I believe that at this time, medicine has been well known and widely use for many purposes. At that time, Roy probably wants to inform his readers about some new discoveries than can be use instead of medicine because medicine has many successes but also many failures. Medicine is still being improved and as a result, it is still not an absolute solution to treating diseases and other health related issues.


Source #2

Payer, Lynn. “Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany and France.” New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1988.

Lynn Payer is a medical journalist and social scientist. She writes this book to show her point of views on medicine use in four specific countries which includes the United States, England, West Germany, and France. In this text, Lynn seems to travel to other countries to conduct research and as a journalist; she asked many questions and did many interviews to help support her views in medicine. This book was written a few years ago, so I think this might be a good resource to help me explain some of my ideas on how the uses of medicine affects us.


Source #3

Jennett, Bryan. “High technology Medicine: Benefits and Burdens.” Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Bryan Jennett is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the University, from 1968 to 1991. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1981 to 1986. The audiences of this book are those who may be patients who are affected by the use of medicine, because this book explains the uncertainty choices of patients. In a broader sense, Bryan tries to focus on the new technology in medicine and its benefits. I think this source will be really helpful to use and in my research paper due to the fact that it is more focus on the technology that is being use in medicine.


What I think about these sources?

How Has these sources help me in terms of revising my research question and what other questions have I developed? I have revise my research question to be specially on "How has the use of new technology in medicine affect us humans all around the world?" I have asked mysef some questions as a result of finding these sources. These sources allows me to come of of questions like, what is the history of medicine, how did it develop, how it has change...and so on...I think in my research papaer, I am going to focus on some of these questions.