Reductionist Biomedical Model

Complexity, Reductionism and the Biomedical …

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Reductionism is the philosophical idea that all higher-level (e.g. social, mental or medical) phenomena and processes can in principle be explained at a lower level (e.g. biology, chemistry, physics). Ontological reductionism states that all processes and events must ultimately be the result of physical causes.

Biomedical Reductionist, Humanist, and Biopsychosocial …

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The biological reductionistic model is criticized commonly but it is found to have important merits. The biopsychosocial (BPS) model is praised commonly but it is …

Medical reductionism: lessons from the great philosophers

https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/103/9/721/1581110

Complexity, Reductionism and the Biomedical Model

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Reductionism is often described as a product of colonialised healthcare practice (Pillay and Kathard, 2015). It is guided by the 'principle of separation' (Adinolfi, …

Complexity, Reductionism and the Biomedical Model

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Complexity, Reductionism and the Biomedical Model. E. Rocca, R. Anjum. Published 2020. Philosophy. In this chapter we discuss the idea of complexity. While this concept is …

Reductionist Approach - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

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This reductionist approach found strong empirical support in the scientific revolutions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, marked by discoveries of disease-causing …

What is the biomedical model? | The BMJ

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What is the biomedical model? Quite often in mental health services circles, the concept of the “biomedical model” is misunderstood. Although it takes a …

Understanding the Biomedical Model | The Nurses Post

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Through the biomedical model, traditional western healthcare examines the body for “broken parts” and sets about attempting to restore those individual parts back to proper function. …

Medicine’s paradigm shift: An opportunity for psychology

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For more than a century, the biomedical model — derived from Louis Pasteur's germ theory of disease — has been the dominant force in Western medicine. Postulating that …

Biomedical Reductionism Falls Short | MedPage Today

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The basic premise of reductionism is that by breaking down (or "reducing") complex biological or medical phenomena into their many parts, one is much more likely …