PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Fokker E.Ii, Tetanus
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Zodiac/astrology: diferent incisions on the body depending on where the planets were, renaissance: organ and cell pathology, early microscopes, ancient autopsy gallery c. People realized that those receiving these treatments were doing worse than people not being treated: if all the drugs could be sunk to the botom of the sea, it would be beter for mankind. Illness is based on an organ malfuncioning or biochemical imbalance. 1: all illness has a biomedical cause, all illness can be cured with drugs if the right drugs can be found, body is separate from mind (descartes"s cartesian dualism, evaluaion of the biomedical model, successes: acute illnesses. Infecion diseases: tb, pneumonia, tetanus, typhus, smallpox, malaria, polio, failures: chronic illnesses, those that involve slow accumulaion of damage. Illnesses that one lives with for long periods of ime: 1900 and 2013: most common causes of death. Jan 11, 2005 a prospecive study suggests that maybe it was red meat all along viii.
