BIOL 1080 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Chloroprene, Sulfur Dioxide, Biomedical Model
27 Jul 2019
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Mind-body history (greece, middle ages): hippocrates (ancient greek physician): 4 body fluids/humours (yellow and black bile, blood, phlegm) when balanced, one is healthy. 1600"s science revolution: physiology before psychology (physical health) Rene descartes: dualism (mind and body were separate entities, body was material, mind non-material) Autopsy proved pathology was in cells, not humours. Freud: unconscious mind, conversion hysteria (symptoms w/o physical cause), psychosomatic medicine: biopsychosocial model: comprehensive model (body, mind), individual behaviour played large role in disease, behavior, death and disease: longer life expectancy due to better medicine (antibiotics! ), higher cancer incidence rate b/c people living longer. Top mortality causes: ischemic heart disease, stroke, lung disease, lung infection. Completely healthy: definition does not account for cultural influences, socio-economic, individual not. In central position: bircher: dynamic state of well-being, satisfies life demands corresponding to age, culture places individual in central position. Individual beliefs play essential role in health experience (response differs in every person)
