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What are the central features of the 'biomedical model' and how does this approach to health and illness compare and contrast strategies with both 'individualist health promotion' strategies and 'social medicine'?
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SECTION B QUESTION 3: What are the central features of the 'biomedical model' and how does this approach to health and illness compare and contrast strategies with both 'individualist health promotion' strategies and the more radically inclined perspective of 'social medicine'? In today's public health system, there seems to exist a public health continuum in which individualist health promotion lies at the conservative end of the continuum, social medicine lies at the radical end of the continuum and the biomedical model lies somewhere in between the other two models. The biomedical model essentially has four main characteristics. Its biological in nature, therefore it reduces illness to a biological process. Its scientific in nature, thus regards the scientific method as providing the only means by which to access valid knowledge. Its mechanistic in nature, therefore conceptualizes the separation of body and mind and perceives the body as a machine of which a...
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