All of the following statements about biomedicine are correct except:

a. biomedicine uses the medical category of “psychosomatic” for some disorders.
b. biomedicine is a growing approach in healthcare.
c. biomedicine is a completely Western approach to medicine.
d. this approach is fundamentally a dualistic mind-body approach to medicine.
e. biomedicine has resulted in spectacular successes depending.


ANSWER: c

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