HLTA02H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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Evolution and the dominant paradigm of scientific medicine y the knowledge of modern scientific medicine is founded on the work of. Instruments (thermometer, stethoscope) were developed to examine the interior. As navarro and others have argued, the form and nature of medicine is determined by class and power relations in the society and not by scientific imperatives. The dominance of scientific laboratory- based medicine and the dominant position of allopathic medicine in north. America at the beginning of this century were aided by the publication of the. Flexner report (which was the document that helped change modern medicine from quackery to responsible practice). Reductionism in medicine y while the clinical model attributes disease to the malfunctioning of the human body, the new reductionism introduces the idea that the causes of disease lie in individual lifestyles and behaviors. Conclusion y health in capital society is tied to production and the capital accumulation process.
