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Biomedical Platforms: Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine

Biomedical Platforms: Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine

Keating, Peter
Cambrosio, Alberto

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Series: Inside Technology (Paperback)

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ISBN10: 0262612151
ISBN13: 9780262612159
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: Aug 11 2006
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.68
Language: English

Since the end of World War II, biology and medicine have merged in remarkably productive ways. In this book Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio analyze the transformation of medicine into biomedicine and its consequences, ranging from the recasting of hospital architecture to the redefinition of the human body, disease, and therapeutic practices. To describe this new alignment between the normal and the pathological, the authors introduce the notion of the biomedical platform. Defined as a specific configuration of instruments, individuals, and programs, biomedical platforms generate routines, entities, and activities, held together by standard reagents and protocols. Biological entities such as cell surface markers, oncogenes, and DNA profiles now exist as both normal biological components of the organism and as pathological signs--that is, as biomedical substances. The notion of a biomedical platform allows researchers interested in the development of contemporary medicine to describe events and processes overlooked by other approaches.

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