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Abstract
The BMA report fails to understand medicine both in relationship to society and in an historical context. The concept of disease reflected in the document belongs to a limited scientific model which characterizes constellations of physical symptoms and the biological conditions which underlie them, and ignores social factors, psychological correlates and illness behaviour