Biomedicine
The Biomedicine is a branch of human biology at the limits of medicine and biology . It is an interdisciplinary subject that combines the content and issues of experimental medicine with the methods of molecular biology and cell biology . The focus is on the molecular and cell-biological basis of life and its pathological changes. The aim of biomedicine is the scientific research into the causes of diseases in order to treat them causally or effectively prevent them.
There are now also courses of the same name at the interface between human medicine and human biology.
Another use of the term can be found in the social and cultural sciences, where biomedicine as a generic term means all science-based medicine taught at universities, also called "modern" by some of its proponents and "conventional medicine" by some of its opponents. The Medical Anthropology has shown that these biomedicine on specific cultural assumptions with respect to the body, illness and healing based and therefore, "non-Western" analogous to various forms of "traditional" or "alternative medicine", regarded as a cultural system are got to.
See also
- Biogerontology
- Regenerative Medicine
- Biomedical Convention
- Reproductive medicine
- Molecular Medicine (major)
- Francis Crick Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Bruchhausen: 'Biomedicine' in social and cultural science contributions. A conceptual career between analysis and polemics . In: NTM. Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine . tape 18 , 2011, p. 497-522 .
- ^ Cornelius Borck: Between mediation crisis and biopolitics. The radius of action of modern medicine . In: Thomas Lux (ed.): Cultural dimensions of medicine. Ethnomedicine - Medical Anthropology . Reimer, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-496-02766-9 , pp. 124-144.
- ↑ Hansjörg Dilger, Bernhard Hadolt: Medizinethnologie . In: Bettina Beer , Hans Fischer (ed.): Ethnology. Introduction and overview . 7th, revised and expanded edition. Reimer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-496-02844-4 , pp. 309-329.