BB H 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sigmund Freud, Biomedical Model, Health Promotion
27 Sep 2016
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How they respond when they get ill. Health: complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction. Improvement of health care system and the formulation of health policy. Disease during prehistory was considered to occur when evil spirits entered the body. Humoral theory of illness: diseases resulted when the humors or circulating fluids of the body were out of balance. Personality types associated with the humors: blood (passionate temperament), black bile (sadness), yellow bile (angry disposition), phlegm (laid-back approach to life) Disease in middle ages was considered god"s punishment. Renaissance to present day, technical bases of medicine are understood. The biomedical model: why is it ill-suited to understanding. Reduces illness to low-level processes such as disordered cells and chemical imbalances. Fails to recognize social and psychological processes. Emphasizes illness over health rather than focusing on behaviors that promote health. Specific unconscious conflicts produce physical disturbances symbolizing repressed psychological conflicts.
