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This 7 page paper critically evaluate the impact of using the biopsychosocial model of health rather than the biomedical approach to treat a patient. The paper applies this with specific reference to treating the common cold. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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place. The two main approaches may be seen as the biomedical model and the bio psychosocial model. The dominant paradigm in the west has been the biomedical approach, especially where
the condition is seen as predominantly physical rather than mental. However, there are many values to using the bio psychosocial model, even for conditions such as the common cold.
The biomedical is an objective and narrow approach. The condition is the focal point. There are two man features of this model when it is applied, the factors are separated
from any values and facts will take priority over values and beliefs (Greaves, 2002). The second main tenet of the biomedical paradigm is the way that biology is seen as
the correct realm for medicine. This means that in the more extreme forms all aspect of social influences are excluded and on the most extreme application there will also be
the exclusion of the psychological influences (Greaves, 2002). When looking at condition where there is not a identifiable source of the condition, such as chronic fatigue syndrome there has
been the propensity to use the label psychosomatic when looked at from a biomedical approach, and as such not seen as a true medical condition. The approach is taken
even further by Thomas Szasz where any mental condition is not seen as a true medical condition (Greaves, 2002). In this metal illness is interpreted as a myth, seeing them
as a big lie (Double, 2002). It is interesting to note that he also accepts that in the future some metal conditions may be reclassified as true illnesses as long
as a physical cause is identified (Szasz, 2004). However, this is not the majority view even in the biomedical approach, for many in medicine the biomedical approach has developed with
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