Project on Biomedicine: Health and Illness in Contemporary Society

This project delves into the concept of biomedicine, highlighting its significance as a driving force behind medical progress, economic growth, and the understanding of illness and human behavior. The project examines the historical context of biomedicine, particularly its rise during the industrial revolution and its impact on public health theories. It explores the evolution of the biomedical model, contrasting it with the germ theory and emphasizing the importance of laboratory scientists like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. The project discusses how biomedicine has shaped our understanding of health and illness, emphasizing its role in reducing mortality rates and improving healthcare interventions. Furthermore, it analyzes the application of biomedicine in contemporary medical practices, focusing on diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The project also explores the sociological perspectives on biomedicine, drawing on the works of Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim to understand the interplay between individual behavior, social structures, and health outcomes. In conclusion, the project underscores the crucial role of biomedicine in advancing medical science, improving patient care, and shaping our understanding of health and illness in modern society.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Modern western scientific medicine is also known as biomedical because of its explain
health condition in term of biology. It is important for learning about body structure and system
so that it become easier for understanding entire mechanisms of human body. Nowadays,
Biomedicine will be considerable as major engine that always support for both medical progress,
economic growth as well as integral part of how illness, behaviour of person understood.
However, the foundation of biomedicine are identified in the midst of great transformation with
proper implication in term of medicine. The report is mainly focused on the discussion, analysis
of biomedicine which become deliberation of policy maker as they will do as contemporary
changes.
MAIN BODY
Overview
With the rise of biomedicine which came greater knowledge about the cause of infectious
diseases. In order to determine its impact during industrial revolution which came widespread
diseases. It lead to the public health movement and their key aspects of health theories where
how it will be relates to the diseases arise from relationship between individuals and population
with their natural culture. However, the significant of public health theory was becoming
challenges by germ theory in term of diseases (Crabu, Neresini and Di Buccio, 2019). This type
of Germ theory is considered as revolutionized medicine and become very conception for
particular diseases. Usually, it come up as the host for impersonal physiological process. In order
to identify the best powerful new tool or platform which providing the best treatment.
In recently, it is increasingly possible way to explain the diseases by using new
standardizes precision. For Example- A report of patient may describe the sign, symptoms as
counted for less or more. In some situation, it may be depending on the social as well culture
factor which plays important role in the individual’s illness (Steer, 2019). There are lot of reason
behind the human illness so that it is an essential thing to examine the current health condition in
both psychological and sociological manner.
On the other hand, It has been suggested that disease was caused by other bacteria. So as
require to focus on the specific micro-organism that would be represented in every case of
particular diseases (Kong, Dunn and Parker, 2017). The various laboratory scientists such as
Louis Pasteur, James Lister and Robert Koch could be isolated and classified the bacteria. The
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medical people could use their proper knowledge to easily diagnoses more accurately way and
operates in proper manner.
Furthermore, Biomedicine has been considered as dynamic model which played important
part to determine the people’s understanding of health as well as illness (Steer, 2019). Many
medical professional has been suggested to use the biomedicine that stands with many fantastic
accomplishment. Therefore, it can easily reduction of high level mortality such as found in the
twentieth century. It will be used against the eradication of major killer disease such as polio,
smallpox. However, it is opposing the argument that has been move forwards that drastically
minimise the mortality during past century (Joshi and Vashist, 2018). The major reason is that
when improved the nutrition level rather than implementing prevention or biomedical measure
such as antibiotic usage. In another way, it also focused on the attention on medical advances and
other intervention at individual level. It might be handled the coordination between health,
psychological and illness.
Discuss the rise of Bio-medicine and its relevance to health and illness in contemporary.
In order to understand the concept of Biomedicine, it is an essential to contextualise within
changing the goal in term of contemporary medical practices, especially in regards to define the
diseases and therapy (Kong, Dunn and Parker, 2017). Nowadays, it has identified that
Biomedicine has profoundly changed the certain goal of medicine. Its primary aim is too solely
at rate of restoration in health and improve the individual’s mental as well as physical health
condition.
The biomedical model is mainly focused on the treatment and eliminating the multiple
symptoms of diseases while it is an essential for identifying the individual’s perception towards
the causes and how people respond towards symptoms, they are experiencing (Steer, 2019). It
asserts that under biomedical model which help for understanding the illness in term of
physiological manner. In order to diagnosed through particular benchmarking. Afterwards, it has
been finding the short-term and long-term effects and these may have consequence on health
which primarily depending on the individual’s condition (Mathpati, Albert and Porter, 2020). In
some situation, it has been developed chronic allostatic reach due to diseases in which
automatically increased the secretion of hormones.
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Figure 1 Biomedical Model
Source: Biomedical Model. 2018
Moving towards next step such as prevention if once found the individual’s ill because of
diseases. At that time it can be used the Biomedicine procedure to provide benefits and better
health care services. It revealed that improved the patient satisfaction which may prescription
and maintain their behaviour change, physical as well as mental health condition. This type of
biomedical model help for illuminating with current stress within health care and also related to
system. Sometimes, it is mainly focused on the illness on discovering pathology rather than
understanding the reason behind illness (Neresini, Crabu and Di Buccio, 2019). Afterwards, it
would be adapting the improvement facilities in delivery of health care while reducing the
symptoms of diseases. In this way, it is to be considered the best way to prevent for health
illness.
The cure of illness is becoming an integral part which require for identifying better
remediation procedures. During prevention, biomedicine supports to give better treatment while
identifying the current health condition of individuals. In past decade, it has been already used
the biomedicine and adoption of naturalistic outlook with humanitarian goals (Steer, 2019). The
whole point is that when understanding the psychological behaviour and give treatment and
relief from pain (Kong, Dunn and Parker, 2017). In this way, it can be understood the
relationship between biomedical model with 20th centuries whereas different sociologist
explaining the scenario in better way.
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For Example- in 20th century, Karl Marx offer the model for understanding the evolution of
society. He was proposed the individual thoughts, belief and rights but of power struggle in each
other between social classes. In order to define the societies in term of advance technology
aspects, with advance in technology relationship between human and nature (Neresini, Crabu and
Di Buccio, 2019). On the behalf of individual perception, behaviour which introduced the
biomedical model in term of health illness. Therefore, it relates to the human behaviour, attitude
in term of psychosocial way to understand their health illness. It became consider as
advancement of modern technologies that mainly adapt within medical field to resolve complex
issue or problem of people. This approach was established in sociologist of 20th century such as
Karl Marx.
Another example is Emile Durkheim was a great French sociologist in late 20th centuries.
Along with Max Weber and Karl Marx. These are credited as being of one principled funders of
modern sociology. He was discovered the fact about social life that can easily understand the
purpose (Kong, Dunn and Parker, 2017). Afterwards, these sociologist are focused on the human
societies that could be studied in proper manner. In this way, it has been collected the various
elements in regards of life that exists independently. It is able to exert which influencing on the
individual person. Afterwards, it also relates to the biological term whereas proposed the
psychosocial method or technique to identify the health condition of people.
In another way, it also implicit that realized at twenty centuries, it was critical way to
examine the overthrow of humoral theory and also established the scientific medicine. This is the
way to give treatment of human illness. In order to identify the bacteria that suggested not only
that each one associated with its own diseases (Neresini, Crabu and Di Buccio, 2019). It might
be require to understand management in proper manner. Afterwards, it is successful capture the
treatment process in which drastically change the expectation of people towards medicine. It may
be introduced as biomedicine and continue to expand across the global world. Nowadays, there
are lot of new drugs available in market which providing the better way to reduce their pain and
protect themselves. However, it will be increasing the demand of biomedicine across the world.
In fact, medial professional are suggested to use medicine and develop the exact the science in
term of medical field.
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CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has summarised about the concept of Biomedicine which mainly
considered as major engine that always support for both medical progress, economic growth as
well as integral part of how illness, behaviour of person understood. However, the
documentation has concluded the significant role within medical term which providing the better
way to improve health condition of individuals. It has been examined through discussion,
analysis of biomedicine which become deliberation of policy maker as they can identify
significant contemporary changes. The biomedical model give a brief idea about the overall
modern conceptual framework which helps for identifying the prevention processes.
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REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Crabu, S., Neresini, F. and Di Buccio, E., 2019. Tracking biomedicalization in the media: Public
discourses on health and medicine in the UK and Italy. 1984–2017.
Joshi, P.C. and Vashist, N., 2018. Illness, Health and Culture: Anthropological Perspectives on
Ethno-Medicine in India. In Psychosocial Interventions for Health and Well-Being (pp.
227-240). Springer, New Delhi.
Kong, C., Dunn, M. and Parker, M., 2017. Psychiatric genomics and mental health treatment:
Setting the ethical agenda. The American Journal of Bioethics. 17(4). pp.3-12.
Mathpati, M.M., Albert, S. and Porter, J.D., 2020. Ayurveda and medicalisation today: The loss
of important knowledge and practice in health?. Journal of Ayurveda and integrative
medicine. 11(1). pp.89-94.
Neresini, F., Crabu, S. and Di Buccio, E., 2019. Tracking biomedicalization in the media: Public
discourses on health and medicine in the UK and Italy, 1984–2017. Social Science &
Medicine. 243. p.112621.
Steer, E., 2019. A cross comparison between Ayurvedic etiology of Major Depressive Disorder
and bidirectional effect of gut dysregulation. Journal of Ayurveda and integrative
medicine. 10(1). pp.59-66.
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