Pros And Cons Of The Biomedical Model

The biomedical model of health

The biomedical model is the dominant approach to health in contemporary western societies and the one that most doctors use. Because the biomedical model is now so dominant it can be difficult to believe that it is a relatively new way of thinking about and practising health care and that a range of credible alternatives also exist.

The socio medical model of health

Biomedical knowledge and medical practitioners have an important role to play in health care provision. Clearly, medicine does have a very important role to play ion ‘fighting’ disease and ‘saving lives’, but there are plenty of arguments and sources of evidence to show that biomedicine is useful only for some of the ‘health’ problems that people