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https://doi.org/10.14943/b.edu.119.69

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/53818

Development of Public Health in Modern Civil Society Rise of Individualism and the Formation of Modern Citizenship

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Scientific Revolution

2013-12-25

北海道大学大学院教育学研究院

北海道大学大学院教育学研究院紀要

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69-103

Public health has been the foundation to the development of modern civil society, where humanlife and health qualify as fundamental human rights. Both individual and science are importantkeywords for understanding the process of building citizenship in modern society；they areassociated with Reformation and Scientific Revolution, which have played pivotal roles in theformation of individualism and scientific epistemology. Calvinists, more than Lutherans, developedindividualism by their self-assurance based on religious doctrines, and attempted at changingsociety through religious struggles based on the ideology of so cial justice. Simultaneously, ScientificRevolution, along with Reformation, upset Catholic authority in terms of certain paradigm shifts,such as a sun-centered solar system and the human anatomy. Both of these revolutionary changesinteracted philosophically to build modern citizenship based on epistemological transformations.Society found out natural right of public, who became convinced in the human right that “everysingle human life should be preserved,” which motivated the modern social movement on publichealth.

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