Hidden values in biomedicine Flashcards
What is the difference between illness and disease?
Disease is a biological process involving the disruption of homeostasis because of anatomical or pathogenic causes. In contrast, illness is the lived experience of being unwell. You could easily have a chronic disease and not be ill if you didn’t know about it. Or have a psychosomatic condition and be ill but not diseased.
What is the difference between illness and disease?
Disease is a biological process involving the disruption of homeostasis because of anatomical or pathogenic causes. In contrast, illness is the lived experience of being unwell. You could easily have a chronic disease and not be ill if you didn’t know about it. Or have a psychosomatic condition and be ill but not diseased.
What is Cartesian dualism in the medical context?
Cartesian dualism is the belief that the mind and the body are ultimately separate. In many ways it can be viewed as having both a body and a soul. It holds that one can be ‘ill’ in some way (even just sadness) without an underlying biological cause. It stands in contrast to materialism.
What is materialism in the medical context?
Materialism is the belief that the physical (as distinct from the spiritual) world is all that exists. In the medical context, this means that all illnesses, impulses, and feelings are ultimately the result of biological processes, and with enough knowledge, every aspect of human life and existence will have a physical/anatomical basis.
What is Cartesian dualism in the medical context?
Cartesian dualism is the belief that the mind and the body are ultimately separate. In many ways it can be viewed as having both a body and a soul. It holds that one can be ‘ill’ in some way (even just sadness) without an underlying biological cause. It stands in contrast to materialism.
What is materialism in the medical context?
Materialism is the belief that the physical (as distinct from the spiritual) world is all that exists. In the medical context, this means that all illnesses, impulses, and feelings are ultimately the result of biological processes, and with enough knowledge, every aspect of human life and existence will have a physical/anatomical basis.
