Medical Model

A Medical Model is a model that is a set of procedures which a healthcare are trained to ultimately treat or cure a patient's disease.

AKA: Disease Model.
Example(s):
- Animal Model,
- Holistic Model,
- Recovery Model,
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Counter-Example(s):
See: Schizophrenia, Psychiatrist, Holistic Health, Alternative Medicine, Social Model of Disability, Disability Rights Movement, Biopsychosocial, Gregory Bateson, Double Bind.

References

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_model Retrieved:2021-11-14.
- Medical model is the term coined by psychiatrist R. D. Laing in his The Politics of the Family and Other Essays (1971), for the "set of procedures in which all doctors are trained". It includes complaint, history, physical examination, ancillary tests if needed, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis with and without treatment. The medical model embodies basic assumptions about medicine that drive research and theorizing about physical or psychological difficulties on a basis of causation and remediation. It can be contrasted with other models that make different basic assumptions. Examples include holistic model of the alternative health movement and the social model of the disability rights movement, as well as to biopsychosocial and recovery models of mental disorders. For example, Gregory Bateson's double bind theory of schizophrenia focuses on environmental rather than medical causes. These models are not mutually exclusive. A model is not a statement of absolute reality or a belief system but a tool for helping patients. Thus, utility is the main criterion, and the utility of a model depends on context.

(Nature, 2021) ⇒ https://www.nature.com/subjects/disease-model Retrieved:2021-11-14.
- QUOTE: A disease model is an animal or cells displaying all or some of the pathological processes that are observed in the actual human or animal disease. Studying disease models aids understanding of how the disease develops and testing potential treatment approaches.