The Concepts of Biomedical and Biopsychosocial Models (Essay Sample)

Biomedical and Biopsychosocial Model
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Biomedical and Biopsychosocial Model
The biological model is a health and illness structure that intellectualizes disease in which prognosis, diagnosis, treatment, and cause are based on the physical and biological elements. In this framework, little or no attention is given to an illness's environmental, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects. The biomedical model explains the disease as an invasion of parasites, genetic mutation, metabolic disorder, or neurotransmitter imbalance. The model uses the concept of reductionism, where a complex system is broken down into subsystems to identify the dysfunctional part. Using ontological reductionism, the world is viewed to be having a single origin of the causal level.
George Angel brought about the biopsychosocial model; the model focused on clinicians giving attention to the psychological, biological, and social dimensions of illness. The model is an alternative to the biological model because the biological model is involved in its operation. The model criticizes the biological model as it views the patients as objects rather than humans. The model is significant as it ends the reign of the dehumanization of medicine and the disregard of patients. The model drives the introduction of empathy in the field of medicine.