Week 2 - Health Over Time

Question 1

Cause and Treatment of health in prehistoric period

Answer 1

• Mystery / Religious cause (evil spirits) ; anthropological evidence
• Treatment by trephination (hole in head)

Question 2

Cause and Treatment of health in Ancient Greece

Answer 2

• Hippocrates humoral theory
  (phlegm = colds / epilepsy , blood = angina / epilepsy , black bile = hepatitis / ulcers , yellow bile = stomach , jaundice)
• Treatment based on imbalanced humour
• Lead to Hippocratic Oath

Question 3

Cause and Treatment of health in the Middle Ages

Answer 3

• Disease explained by religion or spiritual causes (punished from God)
• Came from mass death in Plague
• Treatment was Church (eg. Torture)
• Church prohibited dissection (mind + body whole)

Question 4

Cause and Treatment of health in the renaissance

Answer 4

• Scientific approach
• Ability to dissect as mind isn’t the same
• Science and free thinking

Question 5

Define Cartesian Dualism (Renaissance Period)

Answer 5

Mind and Body are separate
[Descartes]

Question 6

Cause and Treatment of health in Post Renaissance period

Answer 6

• Moved away from mystic / religious views
• Blood doesn’t produce blood but circulates it [ William Harvey ]

Question 7

Cause and Treatment of health in 19th Century Period

Answer 7

• Modern Medicine
• Smallpox Vaccination [ Edward Jenner ]
• Germ Theory
• Development of Penicillin [ Louis Paster]

Question 8

Cause and Treatment of health in the 20th Century

Answer 8

• Biomedical Model
• Disregulation of biological / physiological processes

(Ignores psychosocial contributions , reductionist)