Health Sciences 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pharmacology, Allopathic Medicine, Biomedicine
24 Aug 2016
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Chapter 12: medicine, medical dominance, and public health. Early societies attributed sickness to spiritual or supernatural causes and used prayers, incantations, spells, and sacrifices to drive away or appease the gods or spirits thought to be responsible for people"s illnesses. The belief that each of the 4 natural elements (air, earth, fire and water) was associated with a particular humor. Believed that illness resulted when these 4 humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) were not in balance and that this could be detected through physical symptoms. People with disabilities were viewed as sinners or as the offspring of parents who had sinned until the seventeenth century. Religious dogma dominated explanations of illness and healing practices. The scientific revolution in the seventeenth century was a period of major intellectual change. Most important medical advancement in the seventeenth century: blood is conserved and then circulated through the body by the heart.
