 As noted at the beginning of this entry, critiques of biomedicine tend to focus on elements of biomedicine rather than the whole. There are exceptions to this. This section will review some of the frameworks that have been offered in place of biomedicine, though they vary in how similar they remain to the biomedical framework. Before delving into the alternative frameworks, it is important to discuss two prominent critiques of biomedicine that are influential primarily as holistic criticisms and not so much as sources of alternative visions of what ought to be offered in place of biomedicine.