HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mania, Moral Treatment, Rationality
22 Jan 2018
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Lecture 2 from madness to mental illness. Transition from madness to mental illness: and perhaps how this is being reversed. Are mental illness rates on the rise: how do we account for an increase in problematic behaviours. Treatment/conception of mentally ill does not necessarily fit simple story of medical progress. How old are mental disorders: are historical symptoms the same as historical diseases, have they always been with us or are the caused by changes to societal factors. Earliest recordings of madness from 2nd c. bce potentially mania, depression, delusions: we cannot use our modern labels for these symptoms as our understanding of them are much wider than they were at the time. Hippocrates and galen madness is caused by problems of the body and brain. Rome falls, medicine declines revived by islamic scholars, wards for mad found across early islamic world.
