Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Objectives
Describe the major sectors of health care resources
popular, folk and professional.
Cultural conceptions of the body have important implications for health through: notions about normal bodily conditions and functions desirable diet and desirable body size and sha[e the nature and meaning of bodily by-products (e.g., feces, urine, blood, mucus) Activities done to body
Spirit Aggression Soul Loss Possession Sorcery, Bewitchment and Evil Eye
Culture Bound Syndromes and Indigenous Psychologies The Psychosocial Dynamics of Malevolence & Illness Psychosocial Environment of Well-being Popular-Folk Interface
Pharmacopeias- Native American sources Diet and medicine in 19th Century America Professionalization of Medicines in the 20th Cent.
The AMA Medicine Wars and the Rise of Biomedicine
Integrative Medicine
Biomedical Science and Alternative Medicine
Science or superstition? Forms of evidence?
Double Blind Clinical Studies as rare in biomedicine
Chiropractic D.C.
Misalignment or subluxation of spinal vertebrate as interfering with vital energies
BiomedicineS*
The Cultures of Biomedicine Cultural Aspects of U.S. Biomedicine Auxiliaries to Biomedicine
Nursing Respiratory Therapists Laboratory Technicians
Practices: symptom suppression, immunizations, exams Technology: extreme reliance, lab results Symbolism (white coat) Communication styles Independence and personal responsibility Hierarchies
Nursing Culture
Long history of difference care Nurses have been viewed as assistants to doctors Power is miniscule in comparison to MD Maintain some autonomous, professional practice, beliefs, and responsibilities. Nursing remains distinct functionally and culturally, with its own specialized language, knowledge and practices.
Mirrored in HCP lack of cultural dimensions of care behaviors and expectations Access Issues
Summary
Multiple arenas of care Hierarchy of resort Predominance of Popular Sector Expansion of Biomedical Sector Complementary or Alternative as Approaches Persistence of Medical Pluralism