Holistic Health and Biomedical Medicine: A Countersystem AnalysisHolistic Health and Biomedical Medicine outlines a new framework for social science research. Illustrated in an analysis of the American health care system, Lyng presents an empirical study of the relationship between medical knowledge and the social structure of medical practice in America. Through a synthesis of ideas from such diverse perspectives as classical Marxian theory and the medical model embraced by the holistic health movement, Lyng articulates a "medical countersystem" that is contrasted against the traditional biomedical model of medical practice. What results is an entirely unique Marxian analysis of the U.S. health care system, one that examines how the system evolved historically as well as describes several possibilities for the future of medicine in America. |
Contents
The Dialectical Paradigm | 9 |
The Core Elements of the Philosophy of Internal | 15 |
The Dialectical Theory of SocietyTwo | 23 |
Fundamental Relations of the Social Crystal | 37 |
Introduction to Part II | 47 |
The Medical Model of the Future The Holistic | 55 |
The Structure of Medical Practice | 96 |
Treatment of Disease | 115 |
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allopathic medicine alternative analysis anatomo-clinical system approach assumptions autogenic training basic biopsychosocial biopsychosocial model body bureaucratic capitalist causal century concepts contradiction contrast corporate countersystem defined definition of health diachronic diagnosis dialectical dimensions disease dominant economic efforts elements emerging emphasizes environment epistemological existing facets factors Feinstein 1967 function goal groups health and illness health care system health model health production process Hegel historical holistic health system homeopathic homeostatic human Gestalt ideological important individual interests involves knowledge system logic Marxian Marxist medical knowledge medical model medical practice medical profession medical professional medical science medical scientific model medical scientific paradigm medical sector metaorganic multiperspectival nature organic disfunction patient-practitioner relationship patients physicians political population positivist potential practitioners principle problems public health reality reductionist reflects relations role social scientific social structural society sociology of knowledge specific symptoms techniques theory therapeutic Thomsonian tissue utopian whole