Health Sciences 4620F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wild Beasts, Full Moon, Melanin
26 Nov 2017
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Madness: A Brief History Lecture - September 25, 2017
Background
• Depression used to be called Melancholia
• Melancholy is a term used today meaning having the blues
• Melancholia today referring to a severe form
• Important to know facts, data, statistics, quotes on exams/essays to back up
your opinion
• Melancholia
o Melanin: old word for the colour black
o Black bile, black bodily fluids are one of four fluids in Humoral
medicine
o Too much black bile leads to a condition called melanoma (cancer)
and melancholia (mental illness) previously
• Hippocrates is the father of modern western medicine
o Do no harm Hippocratic Oath
• 4 Humors (bodily fluids)
o Blood, phlegm, black bile (melanin), yellow bile (choler)
• Health is the balance of these four fluids (too much or too little considers that
you have a condition)
Early Medicalization
• Madness is caused by demons and spirits
• Large varieties of disorder i.e. different terminology- lunacy, folly, etc.
• Science and values
• Humoral theory, bodily fluids
• Terms and theories of madness (see above)
o Vocabulary changes over time
Terminology
• Madness: used in Porter and related to John Locke who proposed the most
famous definitions of madness p.59-60
▪ Madness is a derangement in ideas
▪ Ideas are the furniture of the faculty of understanding
▪ Mad people were depicted as raging, wild, beasts
▪ Human faces are drawn and sketched on the animals
▪ These people were treated like wild beasts
• Relationship between the nature of the condition and the nature of the
treatment = horrific in early medicalization
▪ People who were mad had no souls and the soul was gone
forever
• Lunacy: comes from Luna (Latin word moon)
▪ Full moon = beware
▪ People under the influence of the lunar movement were
lunatics
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Document Summary
Madness: a brief history lecture - september 25, 2017. Background: depression used to be called melancholia, melancholy is a term used today meaning (cid:498)having the blues(cid:499, melancholia today referring to a severe form. Early medicalization: madness is caused by demons and spirits, large varieties of (cid:498)disorder(cid:499) i. e. different terminology- lunacy, folly, etc, science and values, humoral theory, bodily fluids, terms and theories of madness (see above, vocabulary changes over time. Terminology: madness: used in porter and related to john locke who proposed the most famous definitions of madness p. 59-60, relationship between the nature of the condition and the nature of the treatment = horrific in early medicalization. Ideas were thought as passions which were centered with. James william norris: 19th century, puts the patient into a trance, hypnotism, psychiatry was born, no such thing as neuroscience, animal magnetism franz, sigmund freud was jean(cid:495)s student current behaviour, etc. )
