SY101 Chapter Notes -Allopathic Medicine, Homeopathy, Chronic Condition
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Learning the language of sociology vocabulary on health. Allopathic medicine - the prevailing form of healing in modern society, whereby the method of treating a disease endeavours to produce a condition of the body different from, opposite to or incompatible with, the condition essential to the disease. About of canadians have used an alternative approach such as acupuncture, chiropractic or homeopathic methods to treat a health problem in 2011. Even allopathic doctors are learning various types of alternative treatments in order to add them to their own repertoires of treatments. These types of treatment do not fall under the medical dominance that allopathic medicine has secured and accordingly they are provided less support in provincial and governmental health plans. Chronic illness - an illness condition that is expected to continue for a long time even for the rest of life and not cured.
