Medical Borders
Historical, Political, and Cultural Analyses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadav Davidovitch (0000-0001-5709-9265, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Rakefet Zalashik (New York University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 309-316 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0269889706000949 |
| OpenAlex | W2108370364 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
Scientific medicine carries within it an inherent contradiction. On the one hand, given its general scientific inquiry into health and disease, their conditions, etiologies, and treatments, it makes a claim for universality. To justify this claim, at different times and in different places, scientific medicine has prioritized techniques such as the medical gaze and autopsies to assure its diagnoses; it has applied numerical methods in order to have a better grasp of diseases and their possible treatments; it has used laboratory analyses in order to understand life at its molecular level; and more recently it has introduced Randomized Clinical Trials (RCT) in order to generalize clinical treatments. On the other hand, contrary to its universalistic claims, scientific medicine sets up and reifies boundaries. It creates distinctions between the healthy and the sick and defines categories, such as gender and race, that have deep political and social meanings
Contradiction · Epistemology · Germ theory of disease · GRASP · Medical diagnosis · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Universality (dynamical systems · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Computer Science · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2022 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |