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Provide an overview of how health care in the United States has evolved since the postindustrial period.


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Preceding to 1800, in the United States medicine was a "family stuff." Women took care
of illnesses in the family and only on those occasions of serious and life-threatening diseases
were doctors called.
The act of midwifery— in childbirth and delivering of babies—was a common activity
among women because most children were delivered at home. Up until the mid-eighteenth
century, where Western medicine was based on the ancient Greek principle of "four senses of
humor"—phlegm, blood, yellow bile and black bile. Balance among the humor was the key to
good health; diseases were thought to be caused by a lot of fluids or fewer fluids in the body. The
healing power of dry, hot, cold, and watery preparations and a mixture of herbs and other plants
were also highly recommended. When people were in nee...


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