PSYC-307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Allopathic Medicine, Ayurveda, Socialized Medicine
14 Dec 2017
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Distinguishing organic disease from illness (a social construction) Soft end points: chest pain, heart palpitations, choking feelings show correlations. Hard endpoints: actual heart attacks, death, blood vessel damage less correlated with negative emotion than the soft end point. Choice of control group and controlling for factors such as inside or outside the medical system (ex controls who are also at the cardiac clinic and likely to have anxiety versus young people, versus middle age well-off individuals) Metaanalysis: general disease prone personality (a disposition to negative affect in general is linked to all health problems) Poor diet analogy: if a diet is l=high in processed food, it leads to more than one outcome; general risk of illness; but genetic vulnerability and environmental factors matter. Higher correlation in above than between chd and smoking or high cholesterol. Synergistic effects of combinations of hostility and depression, anxiety and stress, comorbid disease such as diabetes and chd.
