Week 10 - Complementary & Alternative Medicines questions with correct answers
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What is Medical Pluralism Correct Answer-A sociological perspective on health and healing that allows us to explore the issue of medical pluralism
An individual's understanding of what counts as healing is shaped by what? Correct Answer-their location and experience in the social world
What d...
Week 10 - Complementary & Alternative Medicines
questions with correct answers
What is Medical Pluralism Correct Answer-A sociological perspective
on health and healing that allows us to explore the issue of medical
pluralism
An individual's understanding of what counts as healing is shaped by
what? Correct Answer-their location and experience in the social world
What do supporters of integrative medicine argue? Correct Answer-
argue that we should use medical knowledge and practices of other
cultures to create a new medicine combining the best features of various
health belief systems with biomedicine
How is health understood from a sociological perspective? Correct
Answer-it is social construction because social factors influence health
and how we interpret the meaning of it
What is holistic medicine? Correct Answer-approach to health that
considers all aspects of an individual
the *physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and lifestyle*
What is conventional medicine? Correct Answer-includes all the
medical practices and institutions developed in Europe during 19-20th C
,it is used interchangeably with orthodox medicine, allopathic medicine,
and biomedicine
Term: Allopathy Correct Answer-A descriptive name often given to
conventional medicine
Allopathy refers to the treatment of symptoms
Term: Biomedicine/Biomedical Model Correct Answer-The
conventional approach to medicine in Western societies, based on the
diagnosis and explanation of illness as a malfunction of the body's
biological mechanisms
approach underpins most health professions and health services, which
focus on treating individuals and generally ignores the social origins of
illness and its prevention
Term: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Correct
Answer-broad term used to describe both alternative medical
practitioners and practices that may stand in opposition to conventional
medicine and also those who complement or collaborate with it
*alternative medicine* means different things to different people
*CAM* is a socially constructed and dynamic entity that is historically
and culturally variable
, Term: Traditional Alternative Medicine Correct Answer-field includes
the more mainstream and accepted forms of therapy
ex: acupuncture, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, and Chinese or
Oriental Medicine.
These therapies have been practiced for centuries worldwide
Term: External Energy Correct Answer-Some people believe external
energies from objects or other sources directly affect a person's health
ex. external energy therapy is electromagnetic therapy, Reiki, and
Qigong
Term: Body Medicine Correct Answer-used in medicine since the early
days of medical care
Healing by touch is based on the idea that illness or injury in one area of
the body can affect all parts of the body
Body techniques are often combined with those of the mind.
ex. body therapies include Chiropractic, Osteopathic medicine, massage,
body movement therapies, Tai chi, and yoga
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