HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dipsomania, Medicalization, The Retreat
15 Oct 2016
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Hlthage lecture 3: from madness to mental illness. Quiz next week: study readings, lecture, know the big picture . Madness does not imply that a person is sick, not a medical term. Mental illness suggests that the best people to handle this are specialists, nurses etc. In modern terms, it suggests there might be some science behind it, whereas madness is more spiritual. The number of people suffering from mental illnesses has greatly increased over the years. Treatment/conception of mentally ill does not necessarily t simply story of medical progress. Mental illness is grounded in a time or place (this goes for all scienti c knowledge) If mental illnesses change frequently, then they are more like metaphors rather than these discrete material diseases. Earliest recordings from 2nd c. bce, potentially mania, depression and delusions. They would write down what people did or said, no exact medical diagnosis was given.
