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Imagine that you are a doctor in the early 19th century in America. Which of the following people would you assume to be MOST SUSCEPTIBLE to illness? Group of answer choices: a wealthy banker who lives in the countryside but commutes to a clean downtown area of New York City every day a middle-class woman who lives in the countryside and works as a maid to a wealthy family, with whom she lives a wealthy businessman who lives in the city and frequently works on Sundays (the Sabbath) and takes the Lord’s name in vain a poor woman with two children living in a crowded tenement in New York City, who works long hours in a textile factory All of these individuals were seen as equally likely to contract an illness because doctors were moving towards an understanding of sickness and disease that emphasized biological causes.

          Imagine that you are a doctor in the early 19th century in America. Which of the following people would you assume to be MOST SUSCEPTIBLE to illness?

Group of answer choices:
a wealthy banker who lives in the countryside but commutes to a clean downtown area of New York City every day
a middle-class woman who lives in the countryside and works as a maid to a wealthy family, with whom she lives
a wealthy businessman who lives in the city and frequently works on Sundays (the Sabbath) and takes the Lord’s name in vain
a poor woman with two children living in a crowded tenement in New York City, who works long hours in a textile factory

All of these individuals were seen as equally likely to contract an illness because doctors were moving towards an understanding of sickness and disease that emphasized biological causes.

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