In medicine today the focus is on preserving a healthy lifestyle where physical and mental well-being is of utmost concern, producing an unintended side effect of physical, mental, and societal wellness being seen as the norm, and those not fitting the norm are seen as failures and burdens on society, which can lead to a tyranny of health where patients are blamed for illnesses, denied empathy and care, and potentially the enactment of totalitarian laws aimed to regulate healthy behavior. Medicine has experienced a shift from life to lifestyle, from only focusing on physical ailments to now including ailments on the societal and aesthetic level, such as poverty and unattractiveness, which has brought on the rise of specialties of medicine like psychiatry and genetic engineering; also, disease and death are presently seen as unnatural fixable things that are society's responsibility to fix, which is why there is an importance placed on treatment of drug addiction and domestic violence, which ideally treats unwell people so they can become a benefit to society.
