Health Sciences 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Organism, Body Integrity Identity Disorder, World Health Organization
10 Feb 2014
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Complete obsession: apotemnophilia: an attraction to the idea of being an amputee, xenomelia the oppressive feeling that one or more limbs of one"s body do not belong to one"s self . If they became an amputee would they be considered healthy: using this case study as an example: discuss the benefits and limitations of the model. Benefits: highly productive in the advancement of the medical sciences and health (wood 1986, objectivist view: easily measured. Limitations: does not emphasize prevention, difficulty of adapting it to emotional and psychiatric disorders, disease is more than biological as social and economic actors must be taken into account. Individual social participation in activities and interpersonal interactions: a somewhat comprehensive definition of. Benefits linkage between mind and body that the practicing physicians may overlook: health promotion and responsibility for ones own health, numerous difficulties in measuring subjective.
