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Sociological Perspectives On Medicine
Sociological Perspectives On Medicine
1.
The rise of the biomedical model
of health;
Medicine is a consequence of
developments in Western society over
the past three centuries. In pre-modern
cultures, the family was the main
institution coping with sickness or
affliction.
For approximately 200 years now, the
dominant Western ideas about medicine
have been expressed in the biomedical
model of health.