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medical model
medical model In this context, the medical model is a way of understanding distress through a syndrome-based, illness-focused lens that treats painful thoughts and emotions as symptoms to be corrected or reduced.
In this context, the medical model is a way of understanding distress through a syndrome-based, illness-focused lens that treats painful thoughts and emotions as symptoms to be corrected or reduced. It can frame moral suffering as pathology rather than as a human moral response.