The Challenge of Infectious Diseases to the Biomedical Paradigm

The resurgence of infectious diseases and the emergence of infectious diseases raise questions on how to cope with the situation. The germ or clinical approach is the hegemonic biomedical paradigm. In this article, the author argues that the spread of infectious diseases has posted a challenge to the biomedical paradigm and shows how lock-in procedures maintain alternative and complementary medicine paradigms in the backyard

Disease · Epistemology · Germ theory of disease · Hegemony · Paradigm shift · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Biotechnology and Related Fields · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Zoonotic diseases and public health

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