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Biomedical sciences in society : an interdisciplinary analysis / Iain Crinson.

9789811595233 (electronic bk.)
9811595232 (electronic bk.)
9811595224
9789811595226

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

English

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10.1007/978-981-15-9523-3 doi

RA418

610
303.483

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the interdisciplinary field of the Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST). Over the past two decades, the biomedical sciences have transformed our understanding of the relationship between the social and natural worlds, while its promissory visions are seen to offer extraordinary opportunities for economic and social development. But alongside these scientific innovations have emerged new, and frequently unanticipated social, political, bioethical, and legal dilemmas and challenges. This cutting-edge text explores post-genomic developments in the field of pharmacogenomics and the prospects for a new precision or personalised medicine; the potential of environmental epigenetics to reconfigure the boundaries of the social and natural worlds; the emergence of an array of neuro-disciplines, seeking to identify the neural basis of a whole range of social and economic behaviours; and the challenges of constructing a coherent and robust governance framework for the conduct of biomedical science research and innovation, responsive to the social and health needs of the whole population.

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