HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Helminths, Geriatrics, Biomedicine
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A collection of disciplines that support and constitute medicine: Example: geriatrics, pediatrics, family practice, critical care, mental health care. Health, illness medicine, and health care have personal, collective, cultural, social, political, and economic consequences. Multi - inter - trans - disciplinary. Relies on contributions and collaborations with all disciplines. Informed by the social sciences and humanities. More than the mere absence of disease or infirmity. Requires more than access to medicine or health care. Different kinds of research are suited to different kinds of questions. 60,000 deaths per year, mainly in children. A deviation from the norm: biomedical model. Example: pathobiology: entry: eggs containing infective larvae, eggs hatch, larvae invade small intestine, spread of larvae: portal circulation, exit: eggs. Infection: lung capillaries to trachea to esophagus to small intestine with maturation and eggs: disease pneumonitis liver granulomas & fibrosis intestinal discomfort nutritional impairment & obstruction abnormal migration of adults to bile ducts, appendix, peritoneum.
