What does it all mean for health care systems?

Question 1

Describe the biomedical cultural perspective

Answer 1

• Derived from a philosophy of min-body dualism with a reductive view of the body, universalising, values neutrality (to try and provide a space for all views)
  -Prioritizes numerically expressed data, physical observation, visual representation of the body, dysfunction and structural deviance to explain disease.
• Based on evidence-based knowledge but still the narrow epistemological basis of medicine

Question 2

What are the three main epistemological views on health? (according to the reading)

Answer 2

Biomedical (disease - the biomedical professionals understanding of it), phenomenological (illness and the persons experience of it) and social (sickness).
Argues that these views can clash

Question 3

What is Person Centred Care (PCC)?

Answer 3

• a practice in which patients actively participate in their own medical treatment in close cooperation with their health professionals
• It is based on the understanding that people are independently capable of reasoning and verbal expression and willing to provide clear and genuine narratives and cooperate with health care professionals
• it invites the individuals experience of illness into a space that is usually occupied by a diagnosis

Question 4

What are some definitions of entanglement?

Answer 4

“a complicated or compromising relationship or situation” “a situation or relationship you are involved in and that is difficult to escape from”
- entangled notions of health better prepares students to anticipate the complex demands of an expert practice that requires both hyperspecialisation and holism