Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Humorism, Germ Theory Of Disease, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion
8 Feb 2018
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Biomedicine and the biomedical model: origins in classical greece, 4th cent. Bc: hippocrates humoral theory of disease. Scientific revolution 17th cent: period of major intellectual growth and change, empirical verification (observation) became basis of scientific method. Some key contributors: descartes mind/body dualism, virchow pathologist, cell theory, pasteur chemist, germ theory. Tends to ignore social production of health and illness. 5 assumptions: health is biologically determined, body as a machine, health care should happen through curing disease, not prevention, medicine is scientific, doctors are the authority. Range and hierarchy of health care workers: example: lay healers, midwives, barber-surgeons, apothecaries. Power, autonomy, control gained over health care by medicine. The ability of medicine to organize as a profession. Professional autonomy eliot friedson: authority to direct and control work of others, authority to evaluate the work of others, authority over regulation over others. Power of medical profession is an expression of how power is distributed in society.
