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Med Sci (Paris)
Volume 19, Number 12, Décembre 2003
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Page(s) | 1280 - 1287 | |
Section | Histoire et sciences sociales | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/medsci/200319121280 | |
Published online | 15 December 2003 |
Qu’est-ce que la biomédecine ? Repères socio-historiques
What is biomedicine ? A socio-historical outline
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Department of social studies of medicine, université McGill, 3647, rue Peel, Montréal (QC), H3A 1X1, Canada
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Département d’histoire, université du Québec à Montréal, case postale 8888, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal (QC), H3C 3P8, Canada
Cet article examine l’apparition du terme biomédecine et le débat corrélatif sur les relations entre le normal et le pathologique. Au lieu de voir la biomédecine comme une simple application de connaissances biologiques à la médecine, voire un va-et-vient entre la clinique et le laboratoire, les auteurs proposent la notion de plate-forme biomédicale où la clinique et le laboratoire s’intriquent et se réalignent, d’une manière toujours remise en question au gré des innovations techniques et de l’automatisation croissante des opérations moléculaires. Les exemples utilisés pour illustrer ce processus sont empruntés à la biologie des leucémies.
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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