HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gordon Guyatt, Biomedicine, Frontal Lobe

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1AA3
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

Articles may be in the short answer. Graded on the quality of the answer. Don"t worry about length of your answer (work towards quality-answer to the best of your ability) Mc weighted less than the short answer (~15mc and ~3sa) Each disease has a particular cause (not because of many different reasons), a specific course (evolution), and a specific treatment (because of its specific cause) Body focused materialist (materialism- all disease matter has a physical manifestation. Reductionism: can be reduced to a cellular process (in order to understand a disease you must look at the cellular level) Machine metaphor- the body is the sum of its parts (must look at the parts to fix it) Health and disease dichotomy (either you are healthy or you have a disease) Reformation and secularization (16th c. >)- church loses power. Religious ways of treating a person or a body. (examining cadavers became ok to do- understanding why someone died by looking inside the body.