Most sociologists accept that most of what we currently recognize as medicine is a consequence of developments in Western society over the past three centuries. Sociologists would include which of the following items among these developments?
a. a trend toward seeing the origins and treatments of disease as physical and explicable in scientific terms
b. the rejection of the hospital as the setting within which to treat serious illnesses
c. the rapid increase in malpractice suits that question the expertise of the medical profession
d. the inclusion of self-taught healers
Answer: a. a trend toward seeing the origins and treatments of disease as physical and explicable in scientific terms
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