Biomedicine is at the forefront of all therapy breakthroughs in the healthcare business. Medical experts can use biomedicine to acquire a better grasp of how the human body works at the molecular level. This field is the foundation for the most modern medical inventions and therapy processes. Biomedicine has impacted people’s conceptions of health and illness, as well as their willingness to comply with the biomedical system, through a dynamic paradigm. Many notable achievements, according to proponents of biomedicine, include the reduction of high death rates, such as those seen in childhood in the early twentieth century, and the eradication of major killers such as smallpox, phthisis, and cholera. Biomedicine is becoming an integral part of how people think about health, illness, and personal identity, as well as a vital engine of medical growth and economic wealth.
What is biomedicine?
Biomedicine is defined as “medicine based on the application of the principles of the natural sciences, particularly biology and biochemistry,” according to a Merriam-Webster dictionary definition. EMU’s concept of biomedicine is far more expansive than this. While biomedicine has its roots in natural science, its scope is far larger, encompassing a wide range of academic disciplines.
What does biomedicine serve as a means of achieving this goal?
Biomedicine’s ultimate goal is to improve people’s health and well-being. In order to promote a holistic health perspective, our curriculum employs a transdisciplinary approach that includes study and activities outside of the natural sciences. Courses on sociology, psychology, ethics, theology, and culture, all relevant to healthcare and health care, are woven into the fabric of our curriculum.
Biomedicine’s Benefits and Drawbacks
Everything has a price tag attached to it. In today’s world, it’s impossible to defend any activity without considering the potential benefits or drawbacks of that action. This argument does not exclude biomedicine. Biomedicine is held in high regard in Western society, yet it is not a means to an end. It’s critical to be able to distinguish between the costs and benefits of biomedicine and biomedical technologies. When it comes to biomedicine, though, it’s not always easy to distinguish the benefits from the drawbacks.
Medicalization and the establishment of disease categories are two key flaws in biomedicine.
There’s a trend of turning anything ordinary into a disease, which makes us ask what a disease is. Despite the fact that scientific ideas of sickness are theoretically “free” of cultural content, the disease is subjected to a number of cultural impediments and social perspectives. Sickness is treated in biomedicine as a temporary irrationality that must be organized and controlled.
Another significant benefit of biomedicine is that it enables patients to understand what is going on, why it is happening, and why it is happening to them. Illness may absorb all of the unpleasant aspects of a person’s life like a sponge. This has the potential to exacerbate the illness as well as the individual’s personal difficulties. Medicalization has the potential to be beneficial. Medicalization, while it may go so far as to culturally build an illness, can also provide an explanation.