Emerging Diseases
Structure, Controversy and Change in the Scientific Constitution of Disease Patterns
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Beschreibung
Hypotheses about diseases and their causes are often contested. This book displays empirical studies investigating emergence, contestation and change in disease patterns.
Hypotheses about diseases and their causes are often controversial and contested. Concepts of diseases have always been subject to modification and disagreement. At the core of these debates about ailments are controversies among scientists, clinicians and patients who debate causes, transmission routes and contributing factors. All these processes produce re-categorisations in different fields of research and sometimes lead to the social emergence of disease concepts – compared to the scientific and epidemiological concept of disease aetiology.In this edited volume scholars from a variety of disciplines analyse disease concepts empirically and study underlying processes of emergence, contestation and change in the biomedical sciences.
Autor*in
Martin Döring
Martin Döring ist Senior Scientist am Institut für Geographie der Universität Hamburg. Seine Arbeitsgebiete sind Klimawahrnehmung, Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen, Ökolinguistik und Beteiligungsverfahren.
Themen in »Emerging Diseases«
Disease Concepts Disease Concepts Social Construction of Disease Social Construction of Disease Biomedical Sciences Biomedical Sciences Social Contexts of Science Social Contexts of Science Cross Cultural Studies Cross Cultural Studies Science Science Medicine Medicine Biopolitics