Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biomedical Model, Psychosomatic Medicine, Humorism
8 Apr 2017
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What is illness: happens when the body malfunctions. There are 3 implications of the biomedical model: physical illness has physical causes, treat the body, eliminate illness and create a state of health, health and illness are opposites- one is absent when the other is present. The dominant model of health and illness for the past 400 years. Part 1 historical roots of the biomedical model. Most historians acknowledge that it traces back to the ancient greeks (500-300bce) 130 ad galen, a greek physician surgeon to the gladiators . Hands on approach we can learn about the body by dissecting it. He had seen examples of human bodies that were injured but mostly animal dissections. Contributed to the understanding of the brain and circulatory systems. The biomedical model was not completely forgotten the renaissance (1400 -1800 ad) Here we see a rebirth of the biomedical model- when it was established: descartes -1600 body = machine, descartes, de soul, dissection.
