APY 413 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rudolf Virchow, Main Source, Kidney Disease
16 Nov 2016
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His primary objection to concept of cam was that you take the practice out of its cultural context if you put it under clinical trials because these are western traditions: hegemony of biomedicine and the conceiving of cam. If they can avoid it, they will avoid paying for someone"s healthcare: in canada it may be hard to get access to an imaging machine because they may have to travel long distances. Not very convenient: france far away from a clinic, costa rica"s example, background of providing for workers first, then everybody, started covering workers and a separate system for everyone else. Accepts all who present: tertiary hospitals, secondary clinics, primary built in slums, dressler, gravlee and blood pressure, what are the pitfalls of medicalizing race? , error in all cases! It"s wrong: redefining race as a biological thing because in fact, the phenotypic characteristics (eyes, skin) are so trivial they are not very compelling for biological diversity of homo sapiens.
