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Historiography of Biomedicine: “Bio,” “Medicine,” and In Between (2011)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 102
Pages: 116--122

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Between and Beyond “Histories of Science” and “Histories of Medicine””
Language: English

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Biomedical technology Medicine History of medicine, as a discipline Biology Medicine and science, relationships Historiography

History of biomedicine is a hybrid domain, intersecting with many other scholarly disciplines. From the 1970s, historians who investigated recent developments in medicine increasingly shared the approaches, presuppositions, and methods of inquiry of historians and sociologists of science and technology. One reason is that the increasing reliance of medicine on technologies, instruments, and drugs makes the demarcation between medicine, science, and industry more difficult. Another is the practice turn in the history of science, which gave greater attention to the ways scientists and physicians work. The impressive achievements of historians who applied these new approaches came, however, at a cost. The neglect of an earlier generation of historians of medicine may have limited more recent ambitions for understanding health and disease in society. Closer links with historians of science and technology and sociologists of science may have blurred the specificity of medicine as a domain grounded in the distinction between the normal and the pathological and lessened scholars' interest in the clinic as a unique site of the production of knowledge.

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Article Pickstone, John V.; Worboys, Michael (2011) Introduction. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 97). unapi

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