Historiography of biomedicine : “bio”, “medicine”, and in between

Ilana Löwy (1)

1 CERMES3 - UMR 8211 / U988 / UM 7 - CERMES3 - Centre de recherche Médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société

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,

Mots clés: History of medicine; Historiography

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Ilana Löwy. Historiography of biomedicine : “bio”, “medicine”, and in between. Isis, 2011, 102 (1), pp.116-122. ⟨10.1086/658661⟩. ⟨hal-03477685⟩