PSYC 4039 : Madness From Antiquity To The Enlightenment Notes 2nd Ppt (got 94% in the course)

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Antiquity the time before the middle ages. Middle ages from 5 ad to 1500, the time of the italian renaissance. Dark ages from 5 ad to 1000; also seen as a synonym for the middle ages. Enlightenment an 18th c. philosophical movement characterized by emphasis on reason and empiricism and reformation of political, religious and educational doctrine. There explanation for odd or disturbed behavior was that the person had a demon living inside them: they cut a hole in their head to let it out. Described many diseases like epilepsy, introduced the study of life history, emphasized hygiene and medical ethics. But medicine was magical, religious, animistic and astrological. Today we know that is not correct. Rod of asclepius caduceus: hippocrates, born on the island of cos in 460 bc, him and his followers departed from the earlier beliefs and placed an emphasis on naturalism rather than supernaturalism. Said that all diseases have natural causes: hippocratic corpus.

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