Health sciences and medicine:
Professional studies:
Please answer fully, using evidence and citations where appropriate. Remember do not write your opinion. You must explain theories and approaches and provide citations from relevant texts.
1. There were a number of influences on the medieval understanding of illness. These were, the pagan folk tradition of herbal remedies, the scholarly monastic herbal practices, the beliefs of the influence of supernatural, the Renaissance influence from Graeco Roman texts, the scientific development of chemical remedies and anatomy,and training of physicians in the universities.
Trace and analyse the way healing practice developed through from the pagan folk remedies to the biomedical model that arguably dominates medicine today. Think about the way healing became increasingly scientific and the way the power passed to the medical profession.
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2. Early healers had a more holistic understanding of the mind and the body.
Discuss how the biomedical model understands the body, sick person, the process of healing, ideas of progress and the relationship between the physician and the patient-
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3. Explain why the biomedical model can be viewed as reductionist.
Discuss a referenced critique of the biomedical model
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4. Explain what the social approach to health and illness sees as the causes of inequalities between the social classes.
Discuss the main difference between the social approach to health and illness and the biomedical approach
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5. The psychosocial approach to health and illness sees the stress caused by social inequalities as one of the causes of the differentials in morbidity and mortality rates between the classes.
Discuss how the social stress model, self-efficacy model, and inequality model , explain the relationship between social class, stress and rate of illness. You may present and analyse case studies to help explain each of the models