biomedical model

Traditional forms of medicine based on the biomedical model are trusted more.

The emergency department-based research agenda need not be limited to the biomedical model.

Western medicine is in fact taking a more holistic approach today, with the psychosocial biomedical model of disease.

According to the biomedical model, health constitutes the freedom from disease, pain, or defect, thus making the normal human condition "healthy".

Nevertheless, there has been an increase in the use of alternative medicine, so the biomedical model may not be as strong as it once was.

Furthermore, in the biomedical model of health care, injuries are often just treated and diagnosed, without regard for the causes.

It seems to have been pushed into the shadows by a return to medicine and the re-ascendancy of a biomedical model."

Similarly, families of mentally ill people tend to favour biomedical models because to do so gives less self-blame.

The teaching approach goes beyond the purely biomedical model to focus on the development of the theoretical, scientific and philosophical knowledge of human caring.

On top of that, he has great passion about replacing the reigning biomedical model with a new paradigm, and he is a good writer.

Some within the anti-psychiatry movement are critical of the use of diagnosis as it conforms with the biomedical model.

In the past, most physicians followed the biomedical model which posited that all illness can be explained by improper functioning of the biological systems.

The organization includes psychiatric survivors and psychiatrists who reject the biomedical model that defines contemporary psychiatry.

Psychiatrists may favour biomedical models because they believe such models make their discipline seem more esteemed.

Their eugenics program also stemmed from the "progressive biomedical model" of Weimar Germany.

Training was professionalized and, except for East Asian healers, was based on a biomedical model of disease.

I think Dr. Gentilello's presentation nicely outlined the elements of the biomedical model and approach.

Proponents of the biomedical model do this on principle because for them the biological determination of the condition is a matter of faith.

The biomedical model of medicine has been around since the mid-nineteenth century as the predominant model used by physicians in diagnosing diseases.

Dixon-Woods studied patient information leaflets and found they privileged the biomedical model's explanations for illness and disease.

By failing to provide alternatives to the biomedical model patients are forced to comply with the biomedical model.

Moreover, the biomedical model of disease, focused on pathophysiology rather than quality of life, reinforces entrenched attitudes that marginalize pain management as a priority.

Michel Foucault, for example, observed that the biomedical model of pain, and the shift away from pain-inducing punishments, was part of a general Enlightenment invention of Man.

Anybody who criticises the biomedical model of ME is caricatured by its advocates as believing that ME does not exist or that "it is all in the mind".

The Biomedical model of health is a conceptual model of illness that excludes psychological and social factors and includes only biological factors in an attempt to understand a person's illness.