BB H 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Behavioral Medicine, Hypothalamus, Peripheral Nervous System
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Biobehavioral health: biological, social and psychological influences on how people stay healthy and become ill. Health: state of wellbeing, not simply absence of disease. Health psychology: applies psychological principles to enhancement of health and treatment of illness. Includes social conditions, biological factors, and personality traits. Health disparities: preventable differences in disease/injury/violence or opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged groups. Prehistoric medicine: sorcery, exorcism, trephination (hole in skull) Humoral theory: ancient greece, hippocrates theory that a healthy mind and body resulted from equilibrium of blood (air), yellow bile (fire), black bile (earth), and phlegm (water). Treated illness with bloodletting, liquid diet, cooling bath. Galen: anatomy, hygiene and diet in ancient greece. Elaborate system of pharmacology- blood=hot/moist, treated with something cold and dry. Descartes: renaissance, human body as a machine, mind body dualism. Germ theory: pasteur, bacteria, viruses invade body and cause cells to malfunction.
