The biomedical model - for better or worse

Over the last few weeks, we've been running a series of posts on the biomedical model. This approach, perhaps more than any other, forms the solid foundations for a lot of physiotherapy theory and practice, so it makes sense to try to understand it better.

Here are the links to all the respective posts that make up the complete set:

1. What is the biomedical model #1 - introduction and specific aetiology

2. #2 - germ theory

3. #3 - Cartesian dualism

4. #4 - experimentation

5. #5 - reductionism

6. #6 - normalisation

7. #7 - body-as-machine

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1. Critique of the biomedical model #1 - mind-body dualism

2. #2 - medical power

3. #3 - what it means to be a person

4. #4 - standard deviation

5. #5 - (ab)normal