CAM

Question 1

What is medical pluralism

Answer 1

employment of more than one medical system or the use of both conventional and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for health and illness.
‘co-existence of medical systems alongside each other’

Question 2

How can people come to decisions of using CAM?

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Answer 2

1. Seriousness of the illness condition
2. Knowledge of home remedy
3. Faith in the efficacies of the various practitioners
4. Availability of money and transportation

Question 3

Ethnomedical systems are made of what three parts?

Answer 3

1) a cognitive system of illness causation
2) techniques for diagnosis, and
3) practices of appropriate therapy

Question 4

Knowledge about the world, including nature/human nature must be pursued using what criteria?

Answer 4

objectivism (the observer is separate from the observed)

reductionism (all complex phenomenon are fully explainable in terms of simples, component phenomenon)

positivism (all relevant information can be derived from physically measurable data)

determinism (all phenomenon can be predicted from a knowledge of scientific law and initial starting conditions).

Question 5

What is curing?

What is healing?

Answer 5

curing (removal, correction, amelioration of pathology),

healing (restoration of physical, mental, emotional and social health

Question 6

Draw and label the Sectors of Health care systems (Kleinmann)

Question 7

Why might people use cam?

Answer 7

Dissatisfaction/Refusal of biomedical (not worked/bad experience/no alternative) pt move to CAM

People who suffer from anxiety/depression who dont like AntiDPxssant (concerns over conventional treatment)

People with chronic conditionss such as MSK conditions (biomedicine cannot always cure)

Have more control over ones own health

Treats the ‘whole’ person - focus on body and mind

Natural alternatives, rather than manufactured/high tech miedicines. Clean/Symbolic

Question 8

Summary of lecture

Answer 8

Improved wellbeing;

Experiences of greater bodily awareness;

Produced positive sensations and emotions;

Heightened self-reflection;

Led to significant changes to their everyday lives, including diet;

Fulfilment, balance, feeling comfortable, feeling tranquil, peace of mind, being fully me, feeling positive;

Increased sense of control over one’s life;

Question 9

Final summary

Answer 9

Research shows that use of CAM is widespread in the UK

Professional attitudes towards CAM have changed markedly over the years

CAM is becoming more integrated into biomedicine

The public is motivated to use CAM by the perceived limitations of biomedical models of treatment and by the perceived benefits of CAM

Patients and practitioners relate to several ideologies of body, health and healing simultaneously – a plurality of explanatory models, each of which are legitimised by a different worldview

CAM and medical pluralism pose a challenge to the hegemonic position of biomedicine and its conceptualisations of health and illness

CAM might work through specific therapeutic effects, the quality of practitioner-user interaction, and/or the placebo effect

The GMC requires new doctors to be aware of CAM and how they might affect biomedical treatments