HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Control, Medicalization, Industrial Revolution
12 Apr 2017
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Mental illness implies disease, medicine, biological origins. Treatment/conception of mentally ill does not necessarily fit simply story of medical progress. Earliest recording from 2nd c. bce, potentially mania, depression, and delusion. Hippocrates and galen situated madness in brain. Sina), treatment wards for mad found across muslim world. In christian europe, some cited spiritual basis for madness, others argues for imbalance of humours (biological) Some witches and madmen (especially dangerous) burnt at stake, etc others treated through prayer, bloodletting, whipping etc yet most stayed with family. Where you drill a hole into a persons head. Interesting form of trying to do something about madness b/c it is a biological remedy. Practice continued in some places until nineteenth century (and beyond) Est. of bethlem hospital in 14th c. Henry viii later assigned it primarily for madness, already going by the name. Bedlam (a term we learn that describes a very chaotic situation, and comes from bethlem hospital)
