[Psychology 2036A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 172 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

What is illness: happens when the body malfunctions, isn"t working the way it should be working, if everything is working the way it should you are healthy. 3 implications: physical illness has physical causes, treat the body, eliminate illness = health, health and illness are opposite, when one is present other is absent. The basic ideas underlying the biomedical model, dominate model of health and illness. Part 1: historical roots of the biomedical model. The humour theory (four body fluids - phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, blood) When the four humours are properly balanced = state of health, when the humours not properly balance = disease. Influential theory for the next 200 years. Why the disease are localized, this idea dominated medicine for years. Torture the body (to drive out evil influences) Prescribe prayer and good deeds : biomedical model down during this time but not forgotten. D. the renaissance (1400-1800 ad: biomedical model reborn, 1.