Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cardiovascular Disease, Sewage Treatment, Cytopathology
15 Apr 2016
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What is illness: happens when the body malfunctions. Three implications: physical illness has physical causes, treat the body, eliminate illness = health, health and illness are opposite (one is present and one is absent) The basic ideas underlying the biomedical model- dominant model of health. Historical roots of the biomedical model: ancient greeks (500-300 bce) Prior views: illness stems from evil spirits : treatment by trephination. Hippocrates" view: illness stems from biological processes; Imbalance = disease: influential theory for next 2000 years, galen (130 ad; surgeon to the gladiators ) Diseases can be localized to specific parts of the body (humors have become imbalanced: the middle ages (500-1400 ad) Advances in medical knowledge come to halt; Roman catholic church dominates europe (and medical practice); Priests treat the ill: torture the body (to drive out evil influences, prescribe prayer and good deeds , the renaissance (1400-1800 ad) Descartes (1600"s: body works like a physical machine, soul leaves the body at death.
