HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Biomedicine, Homeopathy
10 May 2017
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Despite biomed"s dominance, various other forms of healing and approaches to health, known as complimentary, alternative, traditional medicine (cam) Central question 2: what makes something official medicine and what makes something else. Between 16-70% of canadians use cam at some point during their lives. Roughly billion per year spent on cam. Use linked to income, political viewpoints, religion, culture, education, etc. Typical user of cam is middle-aged, higher income, educated, white woman with chronic illness (because it"s not free or covered by ohip) Other key user groups include those w/ terminal illness. Until 20th c. , no such thing as cam. Through 20th c. biomedicine came to predominant in west. Obtaining state support, ability to control competitors. Traditionally defined by exclusion: not taught in med schools, not consistent with scientific thought, not acceptable by biomedicine. Self-defined by inclusion: all which is not biomedicine, dominant system of this location at this time.
