Provide five points that critique biomedicine.

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The Answer is Students may provide any five of the following critiques:
Mainstream medications often have significant side-effects.
The medical view on illness reduces the determinants of illness almost exclusively to physical factors only, and often neglects to consider spiritual and social influences. The result is a loss of a whole person perspective.
Typical consultations with practitioners may be brief and depersonalised.
The pharmaceutical industry is deemed by many to have excessive power and is viewed by some as money-hungry. Pharmaceutical companies provide funding with the intention of marketing and this makes one question some practitioners' motives for prescribing certain medications.
Emphasis is often on crisis intervention and pathology correction, rather than prevention and health maintenance.
It is an expensive method of treatment, and not easily accessible to individuals living in
peri-urban and rural communities.
Biomedicine may be of limited value if psychological, somatic or spiritual causes underlie the presenting mental illness.

Provide Five Points That Critique Biomedicine