 The preceding section on purpose in biomedicine leads directly to the related issue of how health and disease are conceptualized in biomedicine. This is something that will only be dealt with very briefly here, in part to avoid duplicating the content in the entry on  Concepts of Health and Disease.  Debates over the meaning of health and disease—including how the two are connected—are central to philosophy of medicine. This entry will not attempt to summarize that complex literature, and rather focus on how conceptions of health and disease relate to biomedicine, including related disputes over how disease relates to disability justice matters, and ways in which purportedly objective biomedical conceptions of disease can be co-opted for dubious purposes.