Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biomedical Model, Psychosomatic Medicine, Cytopathology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

What is illness: happens when the body malfunctions, isn"t working the way it should be working, if everything is working the way it should you are healthy. 3 implications: physical illness has physical causes, treat the body, eliminate illness = health, health and illness are opposite, when one is present other is absent. The basic ideas underlying the biomedical model, dominate model of health and illness. Part 1: historical roots of the biomedical model. The humour theory (four body uids - phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, blood) When the four humours are properly balanced = state of health, when the humours not properly balance = disease. In uential theory for the next 200 years. B. galen (130 ad; surgeon to the gladiators - practiced in ancient rome: rst to take a hands on approach = dissection, recognized we can learn about the body by dissection. Monday, january 11, 2016 dominated medicine for years.