 The biomedical model is in fact so commonplace that it is easy to overlook how philosophically weighty (and contentious) its core commitments are: that health phenomena must be understood in terms of physical/biochemical entities and processes, that experimental techniques are the preferred means of acquiring and assessing health-related knowledge, and that human bodies are best understood as composed of a collection of subsidiary parts and processes (Krieger 2011: 130). In addition to critiquing those core commitments, philosophers have also disputed connected issues regarding the meanings of health and disease, the nature of biomedical knowledge and expertise, the value of reductionist thinking, the value of biomedicine’s global institutions, etc. Some philosophers have also proposed alternative frameworks for understanding the relations between biology and medicine. Though, relatively little literature is directed at biomedicine per se.