Lecture 7: What does it mean for health care systems?

Question 1

What is a biomedical epistemology focused on?

Answer 1

competency and up-to-date, evidence based knowledge in its practitioners

Question 2

A biomedical epistemology is derived from a philosophy of what? What does this mean?

Answer 2

Mind body dualism which sees the mind and the body as two different substances and so would oppose the idea that the mind is just the brain

Question 3

One of the limitations of a biomedical epistemology is medically unexplained symptoms. What does this mean?

Answer 3

when a person who is ill fails to get a diagnosis and so their struggle is often disregarded

Question 4

What is Patient Centred Care?

A collaborative __________ style that includes the _________ _________ and involves the use of ________, _________ and careful _______

Answer 4

a collaborative humanistic style that includes the patient’s context and involves the use of narrative, partnership and carful documentation