ABSTRACT
Some doctrines of biomedical model more closely reflect the basic sciences, while others refer to primary concern of scientific medicine, namely diseases located in the human body. Symbolism must be accepted before it is treated as real, and thus the universal stature of the biomedical model is called into question. The biomedical model, accordingly, must be closely examined, particularly with regard to its theoretical underside. Nonetheless, Cartesian dualism, whether or not this idea came directly from Descartes, was seized by medicine as a means of organizing its view of the world, and is the cornerstone of the Western biomedical model. Like dualism and the mechanical analogy, reductionism comes to the biomedical model from the nature of science. As an important dimension of the biomedical model, the view that a disease has specific cause that can be cured keeps the focus of research, diagnosis, and treatment on the human body, as opposed to the contributing or participating factors outside of physiology.
