HLTHAGE 2G03- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Advances in science - couldn"t madness be explained? improvability , changeability, curability, apply principles of reason that ultimately you can improve people"s positions in life something like a hospital (birth of psychiatric hospital) Transformation of madness into mental illness, madhouse ino therapeutic facility. Asylum could be purpose designed, not simply custodial. oving from holding pen to. Founded by quakers, 1796. lay facility sick and needing care. Mad free to work land, revolutionary idea, instead of seeing mad" people, saw them as. Gave people productive things to do- rational, daily plans. Kindness rather than harsh regimen the guide to treatment. Appointed to head of french mental hospital in 1793. Believed he could improve reasoning ability of mentally ill. As a physician, he can actually cure a person by restoring them to reason. If treated with dignity, patient more likely to recover. Removing shackles from individuals who are seen as mad.
