HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ascaris Lumbricoides, Biomedical Model, Portal Venous System
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Illustrative case study: ascaris lumbricoides (roundworm: biomedical model, behavioural/ lifestyle model, social model. Largest nematode (roundworm) parasitizing the human intestine. Estimate 60,000 deaths per year, mainly in children. Bio/medical model a negative definition of health. It assumes implicitly that health is the absence of disease. It breaks the body as mechanical parts that work as a whole. Disease: a deviation from the norm, especially a normal range of measurable biological variables. Doctrine of specific aetiology there is a singular particular cause for each disease. Positivist: influenced by scientific and expert knowledge. Scientific paradigm, it has specific particular rules on how we know things. Progress through advances in (medical) science and technology. Normal state disabled state medical intervention normal state. Simplistic view of biological processes and remedies. Although modern medicine now recognizes that the body is not a machine, and that it is more than the sum of its part, it is often still treated as such in practice.
