PSY 492 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioral Medicine, Reductionism, 10Th Millennium Bc
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Prehistoric medicine- 10000 bce: evil spirits, mysterious forces, 4000 bce- loose understanding of hygiene. Greek & roman medicine- 500 bce: more focus on sanitation, rejected mysticism- disease is worthy of serious study, humoral theory proposed by hippocrates. Balance of bodily fluids- blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm. Non-western medicine- 1000-200 bce: rise/development of traditional chinese medicine, also incorporating similar concepts of balance and harmony. Middle ages (500-1450 ce: religious domination; returning belief of supernatural causes, plague = god"s punishment, humans/animals not appropriate for scientific scrutiny. Renaissance (1500 ce: reemergence of scientific inquiry, anatomical study, and medical practice, dissection/accurate understanding of anatomy, rene descartes (body as a machine, mind-body dualism, anatomical/biological focus on disease. 1800s: use of microscopes led to cellular theory; disease was an abnormality of cells, germ theory and the role of viruses and bacteria. 1900s: dawn of a new era in medicine, birth of biomedical model (and its flaws)
