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1) According to the Lecture I, the assigned readings and the Credo reference, the Biopsychosocial (BPS) and Biomedical models (BM) are both useful. Biopsychosocial model defined is the view that health and illness involve the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors in people's lives and biomedical model is the view that illness results from physical causes are not viewed as casual factors. The study of mortality from health psychologists in the early 1900s were mostly due to infectious diseases; today, the top killers of adult in the United states are chronic diseases, all of which are impacted by behaviors and lifestyle choices (Branon & Feist, 2010). Ethnicity is also related to life expectancy and is probably affected by factors such as socioeconomic status (SES) and poverty (Brannon & Feist, 2010).

The bio-medical model considers that the mind cannot influence physical systems and vice versa and as such that the mind and body are completely separate entities. Illness is caused by external agents such as viruses or germs which create physical change in the body (Albery&Munafo, 2008). Psychosomatic medicine was observed that some people showed all the classic indications of neurological damage, such as paralysis of the legs or arms, when there was no underlying physical cause (Sulloway, 1980).

2) As I was reading the first chapter of our textbook I found that progression of the medical profession being purely physical to also incorporating Psychological components. This is an exciting development and for most of us in this class we are drawn to learn more about these components that make up every individual whom ever existed. As for age, ethnicity for example being a part of this we are able to do different types of experiments to find what affects those things the differences themselves. Or is it a factor of being a part of one's particular generation. Of course everyone is different but by doing experiments to determined weather the statistics will stand the test of time (Sarafino, Smith, 2017).

3) Biopsychosocial model implicates biological, social, and psychological which interact as a process for illness. Biomedical model implicates the mind is separate from the physical systems, meaning the mind and body. When it comes to the roles played by age, ethnicity, and SEE they are all different. With age, you can't compare illnesses from someone who's young to someone who's elderly. The ethnicity is different when one thing is more common in one than the other, and SES there are different levels of income where some can afford help and some struggle to get that help.

4) Placebos can be great when trying to determine if a medication is effective or not. It takes out the psychologic effect of getting better from just taking some sort a pill, whether it be a sugar pill or an effective medication. The main advantage of them is that they are able to tell if it is better to take a pill over nothing. This is truly great when there is not a standard of therapy for the disease state. When there has been shown a effective medication for the disease state, it could be potentially unmoral to give the patient nothing while the other patient is possible getting an effective drug to treat the disease state. Other moral considerations would be giving a medication or nothing and the patient not knowing what they are taking. This is especially a moral concern if the patient does not know it could potentially be a placebo.

5) placebos are used in place of real medicine that looks like medicine. Some of the advantages of placebos are that they show how a person can heal physiologically and it helps researchers find out if it's the medicine of the person's mind in itself that is doing the curing. Some disadvantages are that they could cause unwanted side effects. Just because the medicines are not the same, it doesn't mean that the human body would take to it well and not have any negative response. Ultimately, if a patient were to find out that they are taking a placebo, it could make the patient lose his or her trust with the doctor and it could cause some potential harm to the doctor as well.

6) The advantages to placebos is that it has shown to improve a patients psychological conditions without side effects of a medicine, there for making the patient feel better in a non medical treated way. The disadvantage of a placebo is that it does not cure or treat the illness or disease. That can cause loads of problems in the sense that the patients brain is tricking them into thinking they are feeling better, and when they go for a check up or follow up to find out their disease or illness has gotten worse or stayed the same. The moral dilemma of using placebos could end up becoming that it is unfair to the patient who feels they are doing better but come to find out they are not.