NURS1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Built Environment, Coronary Artery Disease
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The biomedical model of health, or biomedicine is: the conventional approach to medicine in western societies, based on the diagnosis and explanation of illness as a malfunction of the body"s biological mechanisms. This approach underpins most health professions and health services, which focus on treating individuals and generally ignores the social origins of illness and its prevention . Medical screening and imaging: blood, x-ray, mri. Became an organised healing system in the 17th century. Ren descartes is seen as a key thinker in the early cultural establishment of biomedicine from his name we get cartesian dualism. Cartesian dualism: a belief that the mind and body are separate entities. This assumption underpins medical approaches that view disease in physical terms and thus ignore the psychological and subjective aspects of illness . The result is seeing the body as a machine .
