HLTHAGE 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Revolution, Social Issue, Psychoanalysis
6 Jan 2020
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Symptoms: faintness, eccentricity, deceitfulness, sleeplessness, irritability, nervousness, pain, sensory, change, exaggerated emotionally, etc. Micale: " dramatic medical metaphor for everything that men found mysterious or unmanageable in opposite sex. Ancient world: the roaming uterus, possibly due to womb remaining empty. To get solution egyptian: pour honey on thighs that would put uterus back to natural place. Post industrial revolution: women constitutionally weaker than men, mentally and physically. Shifting symptomology reflected unpredictable nature of women"s bodies. Orgasm would bring body down to calm natural state. Diagnosed those who transgressed gender norms: suffragettes, divorcees, educated women. Social issue - women were demanding a change in role in society. Hysteria becomes a way of trying to stall those changes by mathologizing them. How biological differences get used to explain mental health problems. How expressions of distress themselves can be gendered. How gender norms structure understandings of mental illness. Men were diagnosed with fuke state: they would get possessed by idea.
