ANTC61H3 Lecture 8: ANTC61 Lecture 8.pdf
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Lecture 8- efficacy of traditional medicines and production of medical knowledge. Story: a student at the medical school a chinese doctor taught at was not feeling well and asked for a check - up. A number of tests were done and she was told she had an advanced form of cancer. You never compromise the patient"s ability to get better --> doctor should never limit the patient"s natural healing (nocebo effect) There are debates about this idea of placebo (bioethics). Biomedicine is integrated into the social and political system of a society. Biomedical assumptions can be encoded in law and shape judicial proceedings, and the law also constrains biomedical practice. Informed consent: you must give patients informed consent to prevent being penalized. Therapeutic silence: you don"t disclose some medical information because disclosing will lead to distress and this info doesn"t have a huge impact. i. e. there is an 85 year- old male in the 1st stage of prostate cancer.
