Test 1 Ch. 1 Evolution Healthcare, Terms

personalized healthcare that uses a person’s genes and chromosomes to help prevent illness and keep them healthy.

• holistic care

• accreditation

• genomic medicine

• Western Medicine

He is considered the Father of Medicine

created the Hippocratic Oath that Doctors still follow today

• Rene Laennec

• Hippocrates

• William Harvey

• Robert Koch

official documents that prove a person’s qualifications, skills, or training for a specific job.

• alternative, complementary, integrative therapies

• accreditation

• career pathways

• credentials

isolated the tuberculosis bacterium

• Alexander Fleming

• William Morton

• Robert Koch

• Clara Barton

smaller groups of jobs within a career cluster that need specific skills, training, and knowledge.

example In the Health Science career cluster, the Therapeutic Services pathway includes jobs like nurse, physical therapist, and paramedic.

• career pathways

• nanotechnology

• career ladder

• credentials

He is considered the founder of comparative anatomy

• Claudius Galen

• Aristotle

• Florence Nightingale

• Jonas Salk

a type of therapy that treats the patient as a whole person by looking at their physical, social, mental, and spiritual well-being.

• regenerative medicine

• alternative, complementary, integrative therapies

• holistic care

• credentials

He developed test for cervical cancer in women

• Frederick Banting/Charles Best

• George Papanicolaou

• Edward Jenner

• James Lind

science that works with atoms and molecules to make super tiny devices—thousands of times smaller than today’s technology.

Example: Doctors can use nanotechnology to create tiny tools that deliver medicine directly to sick cells in the body.

• atom science

• biology

• physiology

• nanotechnology

He studied infectious diseases

• Claudius Galen

• Louis Pasteur

• Wilhelm Roentgen

• James Lind