Pros And Cons Of Rene Descartes Medical Model
The medical model is the dominant model used in the United States for most of our health and mental health services. The model is based on some of the following philosophies such as a person is faulty and only an individual needs to change not society. Doctors make all the decisions, as the authority of all ailments, and they identify a diagnosis and label then treatment with attention to symptoms and deficits. A person’s healing is centered on a physician’s expert medical knowledge and skill. A sick person is to be segregated into an institutional and/or agency setting.
2. Rene Descartes, 17th century French philosopher and mathematician, believed the world could be explained by mechanical laws because it worked like a machine. Through
a reductionist philosophical lens he conceptualized personhood into two parts mind and body, known as Cartesian Dualism. Descartes believed the two parts were composed of radically different substances. The dual parts were the human physical body, composed of substance that could be explained by mechanical laws, and the non-physical mind, composed of thinking substance not mechanical. The U.S. medical model follows this philosophy of reducing a person into parts in health and mental health care.
2. Rene Descartes, 17th century French philosopher and mathematician, believed the world could be explained by mechanical laws because it worked like a machine. Through
a reductionist philosophical lens he conceptualized personhood into two parts mind and body, known as Cartesian Dualism. Descartes believed the two parts were composed of radically different substances. The dual parts were the human physical body, composed of substance that could be explained by mechanical laws, and the non-physical mind, composed of thinking substance not mechanical. The U.S. medical model follows this philosophy of reducing a person into parts in health and mental health care.