Precision Medicine: Historiography of Life Sciences and the Geneticization of the Clinics **

Abstract: In 2013, Hans Jörg Rheinberger proposed that Mendelian genetics and molecular biology were “scientific ideologies,” that is, for him they are systems of thought whose objects are hyperbolic; they are not, or not yet, in the realm of and not, or not yet, under the control of that system. This article proposes that precision medicine today is a scientific ideology and analyses the implications of this statement for historians of biology, genetics, and medicine.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Precision Medicine: Historiography of Life Sciences and the Geneticization of the Clinics ** ; volume:45 ; number:3 ; year:2022 ; pages:487-498 ; extent:12 ; Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte ; 45, Heft 3 (2022), 487-498 (gesamt 12)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Löwy, Ilana

Further information

• DOI: 10.1002/bewi.202200023
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022091015170810592985
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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