PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Helicobacter Pylori, Biofeedback, Social Darwinism
21 Apr 2017
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Class, race, gender health inequities: groups linked by social and material exploitation. Institutionalized racism: gender discrimination, corporate globalization, etc. Culture and health belief systems: the way we think about health and illness directly affects the treatments, interventions, systems we develop and use. In studying health, we need to be precise in defining our questions (esp. with controversial topics) Interest in eastern meditative disciplines: mind-body relationship, unique and special techniques to maintain health, claims of mental control of bodily processes heart rate, survive pit burial, regulate body temperature, skin penetration without bleeding. Influence on western practices: foundations for stress-management that is practiced today, biofeedback and secular relaxation techniques are firmly rooted in the belief that we can gain control of physiological processes (previously thought to be out of our control) Importance of culture: different cultures have different ways of thinking about health and illness.
