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The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine

George L. Engel

Biopsychosocial model

Blueprint

Biomedicine

1977

The dominant model of disease today is biomedical, and it leaves no room within its framework for the social, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of illness. A biopsychosocial model is proposed that provides a blueprint for research, a framework for teaching, and a design for action in the real world of health care.

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“The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine” is a paper by George L. Engel published in 1977. It has an Open Access status of “closed”. You can read and download a PDF Full Text of this paper here.