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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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Possibilities of usage electrotherapy currents in electropunture
Polanecká, Zuzana ; Malá, Jitka (advisor) ; Pánek, David (referee)
Title: Possibilities of Usage of the Electrotherapy Currents in Electropuncture. Defining the problem: Elektropuncture is a therapeutic method that uses electric current to the stimulation of acupuncture points or projections on the surface of the body. Because it is an alternative method of treatment, some specialists as well as nonprofessionals don't acknowledge the electropuncture as an effective method of treatment. My thesis is focused on issues elektropuncture approach and on evaluation of its therapeutic effectiveness and usefulness in the field of physical therapy by using low- frequency currents. Objectives of work: The aim is to bring the issue of the use of low-frequency currents in elektropuncture and to describe in detail the currents, which can be used, to evaluate and to process the resources available in the literature to find a scientific evidence of its therapeutic effectiveness and use elektropuncture in physiotherapy. Method of solution: In my thesis, there will be processed all available sources of information about the electroacupuncture, elektropuncture, acupuncture and alternative medicine, physiotherapy, electrotherapy, low-frequency currents. I draw upon the English, Czech, Slovak and German publications. No particular publication will be an earlier release than the 1980th...
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Alternative medicine in specialized media and the reflection of these phenomena in the selected mainstream press media
Kábrt, Jiří ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Kocourková, Lucie (referee)
Diploma thesis "Alternative medicine in the specialized media and reflections of these phenomena in the selected mainstream press media" is researching specialized magazines with content oriented on alternative medicine emerging in the 90's of the previous century and in one case in the beginning of the 21st century. Thesis specifically examinates magazines - social magazine Reflex (on account of alternative medicine materials in the 1990 and 1991), Regena ( 1990 and 1991), Regenerace (1993 and 1994) and Meduňka (2004). In their first years magazines are described from historical and content perspective and in the same time they are contrasted with the topical volume of their predecessors (except of Reflex magazine). Another part of thesis is dedicated to observing two important czech daily papers - Mladá fronta / Mladá fronta Dnes and Lidové noviny (at the same observed periods). All five volumes of both periodicals contained numerous references which proves attractivity of these themes for society as a whole. While the analysis of specialized magazines was dealing with form by which are people interested in alternative medicine, reading of Mladá fronta / Mladá fronta Dnes and Lidové noviny evaluated general attitude of media to reader mostly uninitiated to these matters.
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Selected alternative medical approaches opinions of University of South Bohemia's students
PECHOVÁ, Nikola
The term alternative medicine alone is very problematic to define, since it is not easy to tell, which methods should be included within its boundaries and which should not. This issue has its fans as well as sworn criticizers. We are coming across it more and more often in our daily lifes and it is only up to people, whether they will prefer this kind of medicine, or the conventional one. The aim of this bachelor thesis was to describe some chosen methods of alternative medicine, as well as the alternative medicine alone. Other aim was to verify hypothesis that is connected to greater criticism of students of healthcare programs towards mentioned type of medicine. Yet another assumption was the familiarity of the students of the University of South Bohemia with at least one of its methods. Questionnaire took place in the period between the end of March and slightly below the half of April. Dataset contained information from 190 respondents. The group under investigation was composed of students of Faculty of Health and Social sciences, Education and Faculty of Economics. Other respondents were united under the name Others. The evaluation of the questionnaire has shown, that students of health programs are not as critical towards the alternative medicine as I supposed. Moreover, the hypothesis claiming that students are familiar with at least one of the methods of alternative medicine was confirmed.
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Create a list of alternative methods of treatment of diseases
NAVRÁTIL, Josef
The work provides a brief look at the best known alternative methods of disease treatments. It deals with alternative medicine as well as with the quality of contemporary medicine considering the current situation in the our country. The work provides an overview of the areas of a human life affecting the healthy lifestyle, starting with food and physical or mental relaxation to treating already existing health problems.
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The phenomenon of nature healing in the Czech republic
ALEXANDER, Filip
Term nautre healing in a name of this work is on the same level of meaning like the TCAM (Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine). Thesis deals with the situation of TCAM in the Czech republic. If TCAM is really working or not is not important for this work. The teoretical part describes a history, actual form, TCAM policy, methods, risks and reasons to actual interest about that phenomenon. The practical part focuses on find out the level of interest about the TCAM and also for find out a reasons for visiting a healers. This part includes quantitative research where the questionnaire technique was used. The gathered data are sorted out in accordance with the answers of the respondents to the three specifical categories.
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The relationship of non-specialist and specialist community to allternative methods in healthcare
VILDOVÁ, Pavla
Health care and finding healthy lifestyle belongs continuously among present day interests. Increasingly, people are interested in complementary medicine and additional curative methods. Such a raised concern in these methods brings along a need of more information about therapies alone and ways in which they can or cannot be used. Complementary medicine is often called as additional, unorthodox, natural, unconventional, non-western, unscientific or unverified, sometimes gestalt or medicine of mind and body. The theoretical part of the work describes what is the complementary medicine and its status within the Czech Republic. One chapter is focused on complementary methods and attendance. We aimed at the relation to complementary medicine from the non-specialist and specialist point of view. The remaining chapters address to the single complementary methods. The objective was to find out relations of non-specialists and specialists to the complementary methods of health care and their awareness and to their informedness. The research should confirm or destroy hypothesis if awareness influences relations to complementary methods and should state differences in complementary health care methods from non-specialist and specialist point of view. To get data we used quantitative research based on questionnaires method. The questionnaires were passed to non-specialists and specialists as the research set. The research was carried out in South Bohemia on random sample. A condition for non-specialists was minimum age of 18 years. A condition for specialists was their official position in health service. The conclusion showed non-specialists and specialists are well informed about complementary methods and that the use of complementary methods is not dependent on the informedness. The relation to complementary methods is more influenced by personality the person in question and its opinion than education. Interestingly we found out the non-specialists make use most of physiotherapy and massages in the framework of complementary methods. However, specialists rank massages on the first position narrowly followed by homeopathy. Satisfactorily we found out difficulties caused by using complementary methods occurred only with minimum informants. It was clearly to be seen that in case of any health difficulties both non-specialists and specialists are likely to use some of the complementary methods. To our surprise the number of informants choosing complementary medicine was affected by an increased concern in their health. The conclusions interestingly showed the specialists would appreciate complementary method education as a facultative subject in the framework of their studies. The whole work may be beneficial to everybody longing for data about complementary medicine generally or about single complementary methods. I am persuaded that many complementary methods are effective and may help many people if they are trusted. To provide complementary medicine effectively it is necessary the healer has a good overview about anatomy and human body physiology, necessary education, determination and talent.
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Ethical aspects of conventional and alternative medicine
KRČÁL, Petr
The Bachelor Thesis deals with an analysis of ethical aspects of conventional and alternative medicine, particularly with ethical dilemmas resulting from application of alternative and scientific medicine and with an insight into possible correspondences and differences between both the treatment methods. The theoretical part contains description of the current problems of the topic, particularly the ethical sources, modern philosophical schools, basic principles of ethical behaviour, explanation of the term alternative medicine and types of alternative treatment methods.
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