General philosophy

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Biomedical model

Philosophy; General philosophy

Treats disease as a pathology that occurs within the person. The limitation of this model is that it excludes any psychological, social or ecological factors.

Bhishma

Philosophy; General philosophy

The grandsire (grandfather's step-brother) of both the Kauravas and the pandavas, allegorically representing the lower nature of man.

Biopsy

Philosophy; General philosophy

The surgical removal of a cell or sample of tissue for diagnostic purposes.

(1887-1971) English philosopher. Although he criticised the extravagant speculation of absolute idealists like McTaggart in his Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy, Broad was more willing than his ...

Rupert Brooke

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1887-1915) British poet of great promise who was a victim of the First European War. Many of his poems in 1914 and Other Poems shows his freethinking. In "Heaven" he satirises the Christian myth and ...

Brahmana

Philosophy; General philosophy

A word having several meanings in Hindu sacred literature. Brahmana is both noun and adjective, as noun signifying a member of the first of the four Vedic classes, and as adjective signifying what ...

Daniel Garrison Brinton

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1837-1899) Ethnologist. An army surgeon who became professor of ethnology, of which he was one of the chief pioneers in America, and President of the American Association for the Advancement of ...