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[What is biomedicine? A socio-historical outline]
Alberto Cambrosio1, Peter Keating
1Department of social studies of medicine, université McGill, 3647, rue Peel, Montréal (QC), H3A 1X1, Canada. alberto.cambrosio@mcgill.ca
Abstract:
The article examines the debates surrounding the emergence of the term biomedicine, with a particular focus on the relation between the pathological and the normal. The authors reject simplistic definitions of biomedicine as a one-way street leading to the application of medical knowledge to medicine, or even as a two-way street characterized by iterative exchanges between the clinic and the laboratory. Rather, the authors introduce the notion of a biomedical platform as the site where the clinic and the laboratory intermingle and are realigned in connection with the ongoing process of medical innovation and the increasing automation of molecular procedures. The examples used in the article are drawn mainly from the field of onco-hematology.
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