HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Reductionism, Stethoscope, Profit Motive

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Chapter 8 the social construction of scientific and medical knowledge and practice. Medical knowledge is based on science but also influenced by human, cultural and social factors: making the selection of possible diagnoses and treatments difficult for both patients and practitioners. Do allopathic doctors have better theory and does the introduction of new technology occur as the final stage for rational decision-making. This approach is also consistent with another substantive field within sociology; the socio of knowledge referring to objective knowledge such that of science and medicine. Science isn"t objective and universally true, it is humanly produced. Resulted in an institution that has become embedded in wider social structures and maintained through processes of negotiation by some actors and associated disciplinary bodies of knowledge and practices. Medical practice practiced based on this socially constructed science and is also influenced. Medical and scientific knowledge: historical and cross-cultural context.

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