HLTH 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Induced Coma, Psychoactive Drug, Nimby
26 Feb 2018
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Indirectly affects canadians through friends/family: suicide one of leading causes of death for men and women from adolescence to middle age (men much more likely 4x) Lecture 13 medical dominance, prevention and alternative health policy. Mental health policy developments : new psychotropic drugs, move toward deinstitutionalization, shaped by cha/intergovernmental relations, npm (regionalization, accountability, quantitative results, biomedical/anti-psychotic schools of thought. 1945 57 in maritimes, on, qb: prior, mentally ill in poorhouses and prisons, meant to be a protected environment to provide care and comfort, conditions worse during depression, physicians drafted. Benefits of institutions : patients safe and segregated, people caring for them had skills/professionality, allowed psychiatrists more power in policy making provincially, large, lush, remote grounds = benefit on psyche. Institutions/early treatment : seclusion + restraint, hydrotherapy, heat boxes, malarial fever treatments injected with malaria parasite; high body temperature would fight illness. Induced coma (insulin injection: surgery electroshock therapy, lobotomies, drug treatments.
