Biomedicine (n.) is western medicine which tends to reduce disease to biology (or physiology or pathophysiology).
Biomedicine (n.) is organized around insurance companies that pay for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.
Biomedicine (n.) is inextricable from the industrial capitalist context in which it arose which serves a certain class over others.
Biomedicine (n.) is, in the U.S., more given to invasive forms of therapy that manifest a pattern of aggression that seems in keeping with the strong emphasis in American society on violence as a means of solving problems.
Dermatology (n.) spends its mornings on disease and its afternoons on vanity, which pays for the mornings.
Dermatology (n.) is care aimed at the organ everyone else treats as packaging.
Dermatology (n.) is medicine that judges you by your cover and means it.
Dermatology (n.) is the best specialty. The patient never dies - and never gets well.
Emergency medicine (n.) is care delivered at the speed of whoever is dying right now.
Emergency medicine (n.) is grounded in the idea that it is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
A Vitamin (n.) lets intention feel complete before behavior changes.
A Vitamin (n.) is nothing compared with food — a nickel's worth of goulash beats a ten-dollar box of vitamins.
Vitamin (n.) is chunky little pills that may extend our lives if they don't lodge in our throats .
Vitamin (n.) is a method of throwing your money away.