Health Sciences 1002A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Allopathic Medicine, Ivan Illich, Primary Healthcare
3 Mar 2016
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Chapter 12 medicine, medical dominance, and public health. In early times, sickness and disease were thought to be caused by evil spirits, or punishment for sin. Shamans would use magic and sacrifices to cure people, they were the bridge between the natural and spirit worlds o: disabled people were seen as sinners or offspring of sinners. Biomedicine often referred to as allopathic medicine or conventional, is the scientific approach for treating disease and illness that involves a diagnosis and an explanation of cause. Pat and hugh armstrong examine five assumptions that form the basis of biomedicine: Biomedicine uses the engineering model of the body o o: health care is primarily about curing illness or disability. Health care is focused on only curing the patient. Body can be seen and separated and analyzed as different parts: medicine is scientific. Assumption that all medicine and treatments have been proven scientifically to work, and therefore follow a specific pattern for specific diseases.
