 Version (1) of biomedicine is consistent with biomedicine and version (2) generally is not. The fact that the valorizing of biology can cut both ways helps to show, though, that biomedicine has staked out a sort of middle ground by insisting that understanding health and medicine is accomplished through understanding the innumerable subtleties of biological processes and substances, but that those biological processes and substances must not be so subtle or mysterious as to become untethered from properties and processes condoned by physics and chemistry.