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Alternative nutritional guidelines and their risks
Ciprová, Markéta ; Vysoká, Lenka (advisor) ; Chrpová, Diana (referee)
Basis: This bachelor's thesis explores the alternative diet known as raw veganism. Information has been drawn from 23 literary and 27 internet sources. Considering the contemporaneity of the subject, many of these sources are of foreign origin. The theme was selected based on a long-term interest and self-study of the positive and negative effects of radical diets. Aims: Based on information gained from bibliographical sources, the aims of this bachelor's thesis were set as follows. The first goal was to uncover the most frequent reasons why people choose such a radical lifestyle, and by means of literary research to assess potential health risks. A preliminary hypothesis stated that the most frequent arguments would be health-related. A secondary goal was the comparison of raw veganism to orthorexia, which can be described as a pathological obsession with healthy food. The output and resulting arguments of the thesis are intended to aid colleagues in medicine. Methodology: Required data was gathered by means of an electronic survey. The questionnaire, consisting of 20 required and one optional question, was made available only to a specific sample of people who had in the past followed or were still following a partial or complete raw vegan diet, and were at least 18 years of age. The...
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Defence of doctors and practitioners applying traditional Chinese medicine and how they deal with the criticism from their conventional colleagues
Gutwirtová, Aneta ; Lucký, Jozef (advisor) ; Drábková, Hana (referee)
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been common practice for many years, and part of the treatment plan of several million patients in the world. This includes areas such as Great Britain, USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland and China. However, its possibilities in the territory of the Czech Republic are limited and insufficiently mapped (the area of practicing TCM for non-medical education practitioners). The thesis analyzes the current situation of doctors and practitioners applying TCM in the territory of the Czech Republic compared to other countries where TCM has been successfully established within the health system for many years. It also aims to find out how doctors and practitioners advocate their focus, what reasons they present for treatment with the TCM and how they deal with the criticism of their colleagues from the West. The work will include findings on why conventional physicians are heading towards Eastern medicine. Due to the debate of the topic, the thesis will continue to deal with the legislative anchoring of TCM in the laws of the Czech Republic and the world. The theoretical part of the thesis presents basic concepts related to the history and philosophy of the TCM. It also describes methods of diagnostics, treatment and pillars that the TCM supports...
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Hirudotherapy and its effect on human health
TONDLOVÁ, Andrea
Hirudotherapy is one of the alternative methods that is nowadays being experienced again. It is a very old method that was used in the Middle Ages, when healers placed a leech on the wound. The European medicinal leeche is used because its saliva contains many bioactive substances that help with vascular diseases, affect stomach secretion, and break down blood clots. Among other things, saliva of this leech has antibacterial, antibiotic and anticoagulant effects. The main aim of this thesis was to increase the awareness of people about hirudotherapy and its beneficial influence on the human organism. From this main goal, we set four other objectives, namely to map the opinions of respondents on hirudotherapy, then to map the effect of hirudotherapy on the health of respondents. The third one was to find out what information is required by respondents undergoing hirudotherapy and find out what knowledge and skills a nurse must have as a hirudotherapy therapist. The first part of the diploma thesis is theoretical, where we focus on definitions of individual terms, i.e. hirudotherapy, alternative medicine, etc. The latest news in this area are added in the individual chapters. In the research part of the thesis we evaluate the interviews conducted with the patients who have undergone hirudotherapy. The work is supplemented by individual case reports of patients and photographic documentation of each case. In addition, we are attempting to summarize the latest findings and trends in hirudotherapy with the intention of motivating the reader to believe that real scientific progress is taking place in this area, from which a positive shift in hirudotherapy can be derived in the future. The research part of the thesis was realized on the basis of a qualitative survey. Data was obtained through semi-structured interviews. Interviews with patients were conducted in three stages. In the first stage, we interviewed patients before hirudotherapy. The second stage was focused on interviews with patients during hirudotherapy, where we asked about the patient's concerns and feelings and informed about regimens after therapy. At the last stage after the end of the application, we evaluated the effect of hirudotherapy on the organism, whether the problem had improved and if so, whether to continue in hirudotherapy. The results of the survey show that in most cases, hirudotherapy patients were positively affected. Each patient experienced some improvement in health. If the problem had not been solved with hirudotherapy, we managed to improve something else in these patients. Surprisingly, most patients were actively seeking information about this issue before completing hirudotherapy. The results of this thesis point to the fact that hirudotherapy is largely unknown to most of the population. Most of the participating patients learned about hirudotherapy from us. For example, many of them thought that the leech only sucked blood and did not know its main function. Another important finding was that hirudotherapy should be performed by an experienced hirudotherapy therapist, in the best case a trained medical practitioner. In case of allergic reactions to hirudotherapy and high bleeding, various complications could be avoided.
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The views of lay public on alternative medicine
Humpálová, Marie ; Hošťálková, Monika (advisor) ; Kordulová, Pavla (referee)
Bachelor thesis deals with alternative medicine, their positive and negative ones. The thesis has two parts, theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part is based on the description of selected alternative treatments - acupressure, acupuncture, phytotherapy, biotherapy, psychotronics, homeopathy, chiropractic, aromatherapy, chiropractic and phototherapy. In recent years, we have heard more about alternative medicine and it is becoming more and more popular. Alternative medicine represents a significant part of human health care, but it does not have any rules or controls. Medical societies are not confronted with the problem unambiguously. The main aim of the bachelor thesis is to analyze the opinions of the lay public on alternative medicine. Partial goal # 1 is to map out whether individual types of alternative medicine are in the public eye. Another objective, ie goal 2, is to map out whether alternative medicine is being used, or what methods and the difficulties (determining the treatment phase). A non-standardized questionnaire was selected for the elaboration of the individual objectives, which was applied through the website www.vyplto.cz. The most prominent position in respondents' awareness of alternative medicine is acupressure. The most applied was homeopathy. The most common...
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Folk medicine in Moravian-Silesian Beskids
Lichý, Kateřina Charlotte ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor) ; Janeček, Petr (referee)
(in English) This bachelor's thesis deals with the topic of folk medicine in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids. The aim of the thesis is to present the current state of folk medicine and its methods and meanings, focusing on phytotheraphy and medical treatment of the most common diseases in the studied area. Traditional folk healers who mainly worked in the 20th century, their lives, methods of healing, and the potential transformation of healing practice at the beginning of the 21st century are also introduced. The thesis tries to capture not only the present state of folk medicine in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids, but also its recent history and possible future development. Attention is paid to the status of folk medicine and its reflection in local folklore. The methodological basis of the thesis is grounded in the methodology of historical and anthropological sciences and in the classical concept of ethnological fieldwork; with ethnographic interview as a data collection technique. The results of the fieldwork show that folk medicine is still a significant part of people's lives in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids and that folk healing methods and practices are still used by the population of the area. Although folk magic and invocation used for healing of both people and animals have largely been...
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The Development of health policy approach to homeopathy in the early 21st century
Rabová, Lenka ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Bodnár, Jan (referee)
Lenka Rabová, Vývoj přístupu zdravotní politiky k homeopatii na počátku 21. století Abstract The research theme of this thesis is the trend of raising disbelief of patients in Czech Republic in scientific medicine. The goal of the thesis is to reflect evolution of the homeopathy status in CZ from 1989 to present and to find causes and factors, for which patients prefers treatment by homeopathy, instead of scientific medicine. For the research, methods of (1) critical discourse analysis (CDA) (2) institutional analysis and (3) semi structured interview. The result: Homeopathy was tolerated between years of 1991-1996 by ČLS JEP. Worldwide studies of homeopathy gradually led to the summary of the assessment findings to the inefficiency of homeopathy. In the last five to ten years we can see strong critical and professional discourse on the national (CLS JEP, CLK Sysifos) and international (HNMRC, FDA) levels, which strongly aims against homeopathy. Homeopathy is being used by the patients because of lack of trust in scientific medicine, which is caused by commercializing of the scientific medicine, dissatisfaction of doctor's attitude, dissatisfaction of the methods and practices of scientific medicine, its results and absence of the holistic treatment. Part of the doctors also holds the critical attitude of...
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Analysis of information environment and information resources for pharmaceutical disciplines
Kebza, Vladimír ; Jarolímková, Adéla (referee) ; Papík, Richard (referee)
The aim of the rigorous thesis is to describe and basically analyze representative databases and digital libraries that focus on pharmaceutical disciplines. The introductory chapter is concerned with related terminology, while the following chapters refer to significant concepts and principles in the field of pharmaceutical industry, to important institutions that have an impact on this field, and also to important classification systems and retrieval languages that can be found in some of the described resources. The sixth chapter focuses on pharmaceutical information resources which are offered by some of the world's leading database service companies. The seventh chapter contains a description and a basic analysis of 10 representative electronic resources for pharmaceutical disciplines. The eighth chapter describes representative information resources for complementary and alternative medicine. The empirical section of this diploma thesis consists of a subject coverage analysis of bibliographic databases MEDLINE, EMBASE and BMČ from the viewpoint of pharmaceutical information, and further deals with information brokering that is presented on example of the Medistyl company. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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History and present of classical and alternative medicine in the training of the workers in the health service
Ráczová, Věra ; Marádová, Eva (advisor) ; Kovaříková, Miroslava (referee)
The aim of the theoretical part of this bachelor thesis is to present a comparison of selected problems of the processing of medicine on one hand and the topic of health and diseases in the specific historical periods on the other hand. Besides, this thesis follows a historical development of the support the health care in the ancient and medieval periods. It conducts the survey of the causes of the illnesses, as well as their development and diversity in the selected historical periods. It points out the different approaches of people and the society in general to health and illnesses in the view of the historical background. In this context it presents a comparison of the approaches to alternative medicine and tries to find the differences of the alternative and scientific medicine. The research part of this thesis deals with the extent of the awareness of the antique legacy of the natural healing by medical workers, using the application of selected methods via questionnaire. Keywords: health, disease, Antiquity, Middle Ages, nature healing, alternative medicine, medical science, herbal therapy, physician
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Attitudes of physitians of the region of the South Bohemia to the unconventional medicine
ČÁBELKOVÁ, Petra
: This thesis focuses on monitoring attitudes of general practitioners in Southern Bohemia toward non-conventional medicine. In its theoretical part, the thesis deals with clarifying the concepts of non-conventional medicine, alternative medicine, and scientific medicine. Furthermore, the thesis describes various approaches to non-conventional medicine. In its practical part I examined the level of knowledge about non-conventional medicine among doctors. The research was conducted through anonymous questionnaires filled in by general practitioners. The questionnaires were then used for creating the charts. These charts indicate how doctors view various approaches to non-conventional medicine, to what extent they support using these methods among their patience, and how they view the quality of medical education in this area in the Czech Republic.
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Medico ergo sum. Construction of symbolic inequalities and boundaries between physicians and healers /and their professional identity
Dostálová, Lenka ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Grygar, Jakub (referee)
My diploma thesis deals with the relationship and more specifically with the boundaries and inequalities between scientific medicine and alternative medicine from the constructionistic and interactionistic point of view. It explores how the boundaries are constructed by the representatives of biomedicine on one side and the representatives of alternative medicine on the other side. This thesis is based on a qualitative research - semi-standardised interviews with members of both systems of medicine. The state and the role of alternative medicine in czech setting is presented to the reader and the construction of boundaries in this context is explored. The thesis shows that the representatives of biomedicine build boundaries mainly based on moral aspects, while the representatives of alternative medicine have larger and more varied repertoire of boundaries. The fact is probably given by structural conditions and the role of alternative medicine - while the representatives of biomedicine "only" want to maintain the status quo, the representatives of alternative medicine struggle to change their situation, which requires bigger effort.
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