In the middle of the 19th century they were unable to come up with better and effective remedies which nearly destroyed the reputation of medicine becoming known as quackery. However based on the facts that scientist’s changed the people’s night into day, you could send instantaneous messages and revolutionized transportation they came up with the idea to begin representing doctors as scientists. It seemed as if science was validated the practice of medicine, rapidly consolidating into a scientific enterprise. Thus shortly after the field and context of medicine changed; they rewrote textbooks and became more of a laboratory science. Although it was the diagnoses of new illnesses and resources that could not be readily taken to patient’s homes that pushed the change of the hospital being viewed as a place where social outcasts died to a place where to took sick people to be healed or, in other words, their view changed from death to life. That, then, urged the changed of uniforms of the staff from the regular black religious ones to the, now, well-known white uniforms signifying life.
In the 19th century a campaign urged people to get physical examinations, which included the rectal and pelvis, in the hope of improving an individual’s health. In order to overcome the cultural dangers and fears of physical contact they needed something that could protect both the doctor and the patient. As we know, the doctor has his white coat which symbolizes bilateral protection, goodness, purity and so on but in order to perform the pelvic and rectal exam the patient would need to be naked which, eventually, resulted in the creation of the patient examination gown. That is part of the reason why today the patient-physician relationship is more a partnership instead of the doctor being an authoritarian figure.
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