“Health.Self.Response.Ability.”
Steve “Kineez”
MEDICALISM
‘Medicalism’ is the belief that the ‘western medical model’
- or often claimed as ‘conventional’ medicine -
is the only legitimate form of ‘Health’.
This is simply not true.
WANTS TO BE THE ONLY FORM OF HEALTH
More accurately, Medicalism aims to be the most dominant
and preferrably the only form of ‘health’ -
particularly reflected in positioning itself as ‘mainstream’ or ‘conventional’
and every other health system as ‘alternative’ (infering inferiorness).
MEDICALISM INCLUDES …
the predominat reliance on pharmaceuticals,
‘zapping’ machines and/or surgery
as the main way/s to achieve ‘health’.
‘COMPONENTISM’
Medicalism also views health in component form
- this bit, that bit, another bit, different bit -
whereas health is about the whole body of a person
and the interaction of that body with its environments,
both internally and externally.
ALSO, ‘DOCTOR KNOWS BEST’
Supposedly, a medical doctor is the sole arbitor
of what health systems are valid or not -
eg “you should always consult your/a (medical) doctor”.
This is very interesting given that most medical doctors
are thoroughly trained in fairly narrow aspects of ‘health’
- that is, predominantly diagnositcs, surgery and pharmaceuticals -
so they are not trained and/or experienced widely enough to be
‘experts’ let alone sole arbitors of non-medical health systems!
‘MEDICALISM’ RELATIVELY NEW
The ‘Western Medical’ method
is a relatively new health discipline
- for the most part less than 200 years old -
compared to many ‘traditional’ health disciplines
that have been practised for many hundreds
and some for many thousands of years.
MEDICAL IS A SUB-SET OF HEALTH
In reality, Medicalism is a sub-set of health -
that is, PART of rather than being all of a health system.
WHY SO MUCH ILL-HEALTH WITH MEDICALISM?
The more dominant Medicalism is in a society or country,
there seems to be more ‘mystery’ illness affecting more people
- and younger and younger people at that -
compared to societies/countries where Medicalism doesn’t dominate.
Of course, there are many other ‘standard of living’ factors involved,
which Medicalism is always willing to ‘point fingers at’,
but does not like even the possibility of being a cause ill-health
to be allowed much discussion - and even when it does,
Medicalism believes more Medicalism is the only ‘real answer’.
JUSTIFIED BY SCIENCE
A whole topic on itself - click/tap here for ‘Medical Science’
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