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

According to the biomedical model, health constitutes the freedom from disease, pain, or defect, thus making the normal human condition "healthy". The model's focus on the physical processes, such as the pathology, the biochemistry and the physiology of a disease, does not take into account the role of social factors or individual subjectivity. The model also overlooks the fact that the diagnosis (that will effect treatment of the patient) is a result of negotiation between doctor and patient^[1].

It is however very limiting. By not taking into account society in general, the prevention of disease is omitted. Many diseases affecting first world countries nowadays, such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus are very much dependent on a person's actions and beliefs.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

1. ^ Annandale, The Sociology of Health and Medicine: A Critical Introduction, Polity Press, 1998

[edit] See also

• Biopsychosocial model
• Medical model
• Medical model of disability
• Trauma model

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