Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Good And Evil, Sewage Treatment, Phlegm

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

If you don"t know how you got there, you don"t know where you are james burke. What is health: physical illness has physical causes, treat the body, eliminate illness results in state of health, health & illness are opposites: when health is present, illness is absent. The basic ideas underlying the biomedical model: the dominant model for the past 400 years. Part 1: historical roots of the biomedical model: ancient greeks (500 - 300 bce) Prior views: illness stems from evil spirits that evade the body. To treat the illness get rid of the evil spirits. Treatment by trephination = make an opening in the skull for the spirits to get out. Hippocrates" view: illness stems from biological processes. The humoral theory (body contains 4 body fluids: blood, black bile, yellow bile & phlegm). When the fluids are in balance = health; imbalance. This theory was influential for the next 200 years.