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biomedicine  

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  • Biomedicine is the name given to a form of western professional medicine that asserts that illness is largely caused by deviations from universal biological norms. For most of the past century, this approach to medicine has been the standard for evaluation of all other approaches, whether popular or professional. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Biomedicine]

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