PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Radial Artery, Electrocardiography, Cultural Psychology
2 Oct 2018
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Topics in health psychology- lecture 4 and chapter 4. Key messages: the way we think about health and illness affects the treatment, interventions, systems we develop and use. In studying health, we need o be precise in defining our questions (especially when dealing with controversial topics) Is she measuring the pulse and it almost disappears: this is very dramatic. Individual thought embedded in cultural context: all of our beliefs are not scientifically proven, the internet allows many cultural beliefs to be shared and combined, more broadly: socio-historical context, consider implications of political, economic, ethnic, historical contexts. Health belief and cultures: western health belief systems, classical views of health, christian ideas, biomedicine, biopsychsocial model, chinese views of health, ayurvedic medicine, african health beliefs, complementary and alternative medicine. Galen(cid:495)s humours: the idea with the humours is that the body consists of these four liquids, beyond this , the humours are associated with seasons, elements, organs, personality types and characteristics.
