Biomedical model Flashcards
what is the bio-medical model
The bio-medical model sees the body as an organic machine that occasionally breaks down. It also sees illness as a caused by visible and biological factors that can be observed through tests
How does the bio-medical model work
The bio-medical model believes that the symptoms of illness and disease can only be observed, diagnosed and treated using scientific methods and only trained professionals can diagnose people
How does does the bio-medical model see medical professions
Doctors and the NHS are seen by the biomedical model as generally working for the good of society. Regardless of how much power or statues doctors have people are still strongly advised to listen to doctors.
How does the bio-medical model see health now 1
The bio-medical model sees the good health of nation and improved life expectancy as mainly brought about by doctors and the NHS.
How doe the bio-medical model see health 2
The bio-medical model believes that only trained medical professionals should treat illness in a medical environment.
Issues about bio by the social model
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Towler
Claims that the biomedical model is too focused on the expensive business of curing people when it should focus on prevention methods.
McKeown
The biomedical model argues that the nhs has improved health but McKeown argues that health was changing way before the nhs due to good sanitation and good hygiene. The nhs was introduced in 1948.
Illich
Professionals do good for society? he didn’t agree because clinical iatrogenesis he claims that doctors do more harm than good. e.g. mistakes due to operations and misdiagnosis.
what Sociologists argue
illness differs according to historical period, cultures, age-group and mental illness
Postmodernism
critical of bio-med approach because doctors are defining a greater range of normal behaviour,
Nhs and turn to alternative medication.
