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Biopsychosocial vs Biomedical - What's the difference?

biopsychosocial | biomedical |

As adjectives the difference between biopsychosocial and biomedical

is that biopsychosocial is having biological, psychological and social characteristics while biomedical is of or pertaining to biomedicine.

As a noun biomedical is

a product of the biomedicine industry.

biopsychosocial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having biological, psychological and social characteristics
  • Relating to the biopsychosocial perspective, the idea that the mind and the body are inseparable entities

    • Usage notes

    * Used especially in fields of alternative medicine.

    biomedical

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to biomedicine.
  • * 2006 , Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, Mustafa H. M. Babiker (editors), African anthropologies: history, critique, and practice , page 253:
    • The research problem was biomedical' in nature but the research approach adopted was multidisciplinary, with '''biomedical''', psychological and anthropological aspects. Despite joint efforts, our ' biomedical colleagues felt that [...]
  • * 2007 , Athena McLean, The person in dementia: a study in nursing home care in the US , page 28:
    • Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature.
  • * 2011 , Gosia M. Brykczy?ska, Joan Simons, Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People , page 208:
    • Clearly, some research undertaken by children's nurses is biomedical in nature although a significant amount of contemporary research is qualitative focusing on children's experiences and evaluating services.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A product of the biomedicine industry.