Grignolio Flashcards

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DISEASE

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Ways of functioning of an individual body that are maladaptive with respect to the environmental context

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PAST REPRODUCTIVE PHASE OF LIFE

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Our life after 30/35 years from birth

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CAUSES OF GENETIC VARIATIONS

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  • Environmental selective pressures
  • Reproductive isolation of a small group of humans
  • Mutations
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ROBIN DUNBAR- SOCIAL BRAIN HYPOTHESIS

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Human intelligente did not evolve to solve ecological problems but to survive and reproduce in large social groups
( max number you an maintain a real relationship with: 150)

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ANTAGONISTIC PLEIOTROPY

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Some genes that are beneficial in the early life that became harmful later

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THRIFTY GENES HYPOTHESIS

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Our society is unfit for us because our being was

selected for another habitat and life-style

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BARKER HYPOTHESIS

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Maternal malnutrition causes fetal malnutrition that rises the probability of having other diseases

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ADAPTIVE BIAS

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Idea that our brain has evolved to reason adaptively and not rationally

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BIOCENOSIS

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Association of different organisms forming a closely integrate community

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PATOCENOSIS

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Group of pathological states present within a given population at a given time

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EVOLUTIONARY TRADE OFF

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A trait cannot increase without a decrease in another

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CAIMANS

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Origin of doctors

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3-FOLD DIVISION OF PHYSICIANS

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  • Healers
  • Priests
  • Sorcerers
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HIPPOCRATES

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First detachment from the religious approach
Promoted:
- Blood letting 
- New lifestyle 
- Change of diet
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EVOLUTION OF MEDICAL THEORIES

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  • Preternaturalistic (divine punishment)
  • Hippocratic revolution (First, do not harm)
  • Naturalistic (Magic-religious)
  • Socio-cultural (Normative and holistic concepts)
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4 HUMOURS

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  1. Yellow bile
  2. Blood (source of vitality)
  3. Black bile
  4. Phlegm
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STEPS OF HIPPOCRATES DIAGNOSIS

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  1. Diagnosis ( identifying a disease)
  2. Prognosis (the likely course of the condition)
  3. Observation
  4. Treatment
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GALEN

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Greek physician of Marco Aurelio
Anatomist
Realised that the brain controlled the speech

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ORIGIN OF HOSPITALS

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First hospital done by Nestorians
(Armenians)
The islamic word was the centre of medical knowledge

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THE CANON OF MEDICINE

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Medical encyclopaedia wrote by Ibn Sina

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SURGEONS

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Hippocrates refused the surgical aspect of medicine
Surgical activity was delegated to:
- Barbers 
- Apothecaries 
- Butchers 
- Charlatans
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DIVISION OF THE DOCTORS

MIDDLE AGES

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  • Ordinary practitioners ( selling medicines)

- Clerics practicing ( dealt with diseases)

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WILLIAM HARVEY

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Discovered blood circulation

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MIASM

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The cause of a disease is a terrestrial cause

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GIROLAMO FRACASTORO
Idea that small particles caused diseases and they were considered to be spread by air
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DE CONTAGION ET CONTGIOSIS MORBIS- | GIROLAMO FRACASTORO
Promoted personal and environmental hygiene to prevent diseases
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TRAGIC EVENTS IN MEDICINE
1. Nazi experiments ( doctor Mengale) | 2. Syphilis study in Georgia ( 600 african-american males where infected by syphilis and not cured)
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BELMONT REPORT
Milestone in bioethics - Informed consent - Maximise the benefits and minimise the harms
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NUREMBERG CODE
Created guidelines for doctors about the relationship with patients
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ANDREUS VESALIUS
Anatomist
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MORGAGNI
Father of anatomical pathology
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LEEUWENHOEK
Creation of microsocopes
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MALPHIGI
Father of microscopic anatomy
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JHON SNOW
Father of epidemiology Methods: - Ecological design ( compare cholera rates by region) - Cohort design ( cholera rates in exposed and non exposed individuals) - Case-control analysis ( exposure history in cholera cases and non cases)
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SEMMELWEIS
Father of antiseptic procedures | washing hands
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NOCEBO
Opposite of Placebo | A bad attitude of a doctor will induce a bad response of the patient
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2 FORMS OF DEFENSIVE MEDICINE
- Assurance behaviour: charging of additional unnecessary services - Avoidance behaviour: providers refuse to participate in risky procedures
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JENNER
Origin of vaccines ( from smallpox)
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SPILL-OVER
Jump of a disease from animals to humans
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MITHRIDATISM
Possibility of artificially acquiring immunity to poisons
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MAJOR CAUSES OF EPIDEMICS
- Market - Colonisation - Travels - Globalisation - Wars
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KOCH- GERMS
Germ theory of disease | He discovered the media of growth for bacteria , which was fundamental to grow viruses and to test them
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PASTEUR
``` Demonstrated that it's possible to attenuate the virulence of a pathogen Developed the first vaccine against: - rabies - chickenpox - anthrax ```
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STEPS TO ATTENUATE A PATHOLOGY
1. Isolate pathogens 2. Cultivate them 3. Attenuate them (1. Heat, 2. filters, 3. Chemical agents) 4. Inject them 5. Immunize
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ENDEMIC DISEASE
the level of pathogenicity is decreased over time