 If biomedicine is a recent historical development, then what exactly came before it? Many different frameworks for health existed before the rise of biomedicine, though many such frameworks exist now despite the dominance of biomedicine. Some have been distinctly influenced by or merged with biomedicine. For instance, osteopathic medicine has gradually gone from a full alternative system of medicine (focusing on manipulation of body via pressure, stretching and other means of readjustment of bodily structure in order to rebalance internal processes), to an alternative track of medical education/practice that has in large part converged with the biomedical/allopathic medicine track (McClain 2017; Stark 2013).