HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Biomedicine, Faith Healing
6 Sep 2017
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Despite bio-med"s dominance, various other forms of healing and approaches to health, known as complimentary, alternative, traditional medicine (cam) Between 16-70% of canadians use cam at some point during their lives - roughly billion per year spent on cam. Range depends on how you de ne cam and biomedicine. Use linked to income, political viewpoints, religion, culture, education, etc. Typical user of cam is middle-aged, higher income, educated, white women with chronic illness. Often contested illness, biomedicine doesn"t resolve easily. Higher income and education - pay for biomedicine through taxes, but cam is not covered by ohip so need to pay out of pocket (+correlation between education and money) Other key user groups include those with terminal illnesses (ex. cancer) Chronic illness that were once seen as fatal but not anymore (ex. Until 20th century, no such thing as cam. Through 20th century, biomedicine came to predominate in west.
