HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture 3: 2G03 Lecture 3
10 Dec 2017
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Treatment/conception of mentally ill does not necessarily fit simply story of medical progress. Pre-institutional history 1: earliest recordings from 2nd c. bce, potentially mania, depression and delusions, these people were not diagnosed because they weren"t the responsibility of physicians, hippocrates and galen -> situated madness in brain, rome falls, medicine declines. Revived by islamic scholars, treatment wards for mad found across. Saw strange behaviour as originating in the brain. Muslim world: there were treatment wards set aside for mad people. People who behave in an unusual way are different from others and there might be a benefit to elevate the difference, to treat them with medicine or with prayer. In christian europe, some cited spiritual basis for madness, others argued for imbalance of humours (biological) Can explain some behaviours by having a close relationship with god, or being punished by god. Some witches and mad(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:894)espe(cid:272)iall(cid:455) da(cid:374)gerous(cid:895) (cid:271)ur(cid:374)t at stake, et(cid:272) .
