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is a negation of health, organized not around the idea of serving human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

is an approach to medicine that incorporates core values that are communicated to patients, such as self-reliance, rugged individualism, independence, pragmatism, empiricism, atomism, militarism, profit-making, emotional minimalism, and a mechanistic concept of the body and its repair.

Within the U.S. context, biomedicine incorporates certain core values, metaphors, beliefs, and attitudes that it communicates to patients, such as self-reliance, rugged individualism, independence, pragmatism, empiricism, atomism, militarism, profit-making, emotional minimalism, and a mechanistic concept of the body and its repair (Stein 1990).

is an ethno-medical system of medicine dominant in the west which focuses on curing over prevention and spends much more money on hospitals, clinics, ambulance services, drugs, and 'miracle cures' than it does on public health facilities, preventive education, cleaning the environment, and eliminating the stress associated with modern life.

Hahn notes that biomedicine emphasizes curing over prevention and spends much more money on hospitals, clinics, ambulance services, drugs, and 'miracle cures' than it does on public health facilities, preventive education, cleaning the environment, and eliminating the stress associated with modern life. Biomedicine constitutes the predominant ethnomedical system of European and North American societies and has become widely disseminated throughout the world.

is compatible with the world view of (and politically and economically useful to) the capitalist class and the emerging managerial and professional stratum with its attention on discrete, external agents rather than on social structural or environmental factors.

According to E. R. Brown (1979), 'The medical profession discovered an ideology that was compatible with the world view of, and politically and economically useful to, the capitalist class and the emerging managerial and professional stratum.' Biomedicine focused attention on discrete, external agents rather than on social structural or environmental factors.

is concerned with treating populations, not people with one-size-fits-all treatments and diagnoses.

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

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.

German patients tend on the average to visit the doctor's office more than twice as often as their counterparts in France, England, and the United States. U.S. biomedicine relies much more than biomedicine in France, Germany, and England on invasive forms of therapy, such as cesarean sections, hysterectomies, breast cancer screenings, and high dosages of psychotropic drugs. As we saw in the case of cancer treatment, U.S. biomedicine manifests a pattern of aggression that seems in keeping with the strong emphasis in American society on violence as a means of solving problems a pattern undoubtedly rooted in the frontier mentality that continues to live on in what has for the most part become a highly urbanized, postindustrial society. In this sense, the war on cancer and the war on drugs are symbolic cultural continuations of the war against Native Americans that cleared the frontier for white settlement.

is inextricable from the industrial capitalist context in which it arose which serves a certain class over others.

Biomedicine achieved its dominant position in the West and beyond with the emergence of industrial capitalism and with abundant assistance from the capitalist class whose interests it commonly serves.

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.

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

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