Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Catholic Church, Biomedical Model, Humorism

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

Document Summary

Psych 2036: lecture 2- an introduction to health psychology. Something that happens when the body malfunctions. Three implications of these common-sense views of health/illness: physical illness: has physical causes, treat the body, eliminate illness; produce a state of health, health and illness are opposites. These 3 implications are the same ideas underlying the biomedical model. Historical roots of the biomedical model: ancient greeks (500-300 bce) Hippocrates ( father of modern medicine); most influential greek philosopher for health psych. ; will be asked to recite the hippocratic oath. Prior to hippocrates: illness was viewed as evil spirits that had entered the body. To treat the illness; had to get rid of the evil spirits. Trephination: release evil spirits by providing an opening in the body so that the evil spirits could escape (ex. opening was in the skull) Illness stems from biological processes: proposed the humoral theory (four body fluids)