Abstract

BAETA S, María F. Culture and biomedical model: reflections in the health-disease process. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.2, pp.81-84. ISSN 1690-3293.

This paper aims to address the issue of culture and the biomedical model in the health-disease process through a series of reflections. The man has built different concepts of health, disease, ways to relieve it, measures for prevention and health promotion, according to the culture of each society and its form of organization. Model Biomedical is rooted in the Cartesian rationalist thought and Newtonian physics, divided human nature, body and mind and the body is considered as a biological structure whose elements operate according to laws of classical physics, in terms of movement and settings of its parts. It is essential that in the process of health illness medical systems are not seen in isolation and imposing but appreciated in the entire field of culture and society in which they operate. It must achieve a gear between culture and the biomedical model in the health-disease process, as both can achieve complementarity and improve the social and collective welfare.

Keywords : Culture; biomedical model; health-disease; process.

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