SOCIOL 3HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Naturopathy, Biomedicine, Rela
12 Sep 2013
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Lecture 12: medicalization health care pluralism & final review. Essay returned monday 1:30-1:45 in abb 164. Ethno medicine biomedicine: ethno medicine is biomedicine, reality is that most western socs have a situation of helath care pluralism. Origin of the treatment isn"t as relavent as the peopl"s belief in that treatment as we saw with the placebo effect. Health care subculture: diff groups of healers. Each group has its own way of describing health and of treating it. Each has diff organization own subculture. Can be indigenous e. g. first nations healing or can be importing into a soc e. g. Can be indigenous e. g. first nations healing or can be importing into a soc e. g. techniques imported from asia. Clineman futher subdivides cults into three main groups. Who do we first ask for help. Includes all therapeutic options people use without payment or consulting healers/professionals. Help from community: self-help group, church, yoga groups, new age movements etc.
