History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thomas Sydenham, Philippe Pinel, Forensic Pathology
11 Oct 2018
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A lot of vitalism vitalism tends to be rejected by science. Tend to focus on mechanism and what you can see: we don"t just worry about the body when we get sick it also involves a change in the person, not just the physical reality of the body. E. g. the person is suffering, and the body suffers as well mechanistic idea. Illness is personal (an affliction) it is about how we feel and think. Suffering is something that is experienced; something that has an effect on identity self disruption. Sense of sympathy connotation of an emotional connection. Psychological state (sense of self, relationship to others) Today"s pathology tends to dissociate itself from psychological and social dimensions of illness to focus on the organic disease (i. e. the lesion) E. g. picture of a brain with a tumor objective focus on the lesion. 5 interrelated aims of pathology: causation explains why we get sick, why things went wrong, diagnosis explains what is wrong.
