What is Biomedicine Flashcards
- Biomedicine is a sociotechnical system like a power grid railway network or internet. - This arrangement has held together since end of nineteenth century. - In theory biomedicine is based on an assumption that human bodies everywhere are biologically equivalent (16 cards)
What is Biomedicine
- Biomedicine is a sociotechnical system like a power grid railway network or internet.
- This arrangement has held together since end of nineteenth century.
- In theory biomedicine is based on an assumption that human bodies everywhere are biologically equivalent
What does the government do about biological technologies?
Governments and developmental agencies make biological technologies to prevent ill health, diseases and disabilities
How were standardized medical practices started?
Despite physical differences all human bodies function the same inside and this lead to standardized medical practices that don’t always consider individual patient realities
How was life expectancy increased in Europe and North America during the 19th century?
Because of sanitation systems and better food distribution
What technologies were created to prevent and diagnose diseases and disabilities?
Vaccines, antibiotics and surgery
What is biosocial differentiation
Biology and society influence each other over time, and these interactions affect human populations in both slow and fast ways.
First theme of the Interwoven Themes?
Biological and social life are connected overtime
□ Biology and society affect each other because of social life
□ Evolution- slow and steady
□ Faster changes can happen due to things like environment, recent history and or political or economic events
Second theme of the Interwoven Themes?
What is Biosocial differentiation?
Evolution leads to slow biological changes but faster changes happen too due to the shifts in environment, social conditions, and politics like how malaria resistance developed in populations exposed to malaria carrying mosquitos
Third theme of the interwoven themes?
Ethnography is key to understanding how biomedical technologies impact local populations
What is WHO?
World Health Organization
What is the population of people in poverty globally?
Roughly 1.5 Billion
What are some economic and political factors affecting health?
Cost of food- is influenced by global economic policies and agribusiness making it harder for the poor to access food
Government is supposed to provide basics for health like clean water but spend more money on weaponry
What are some global healths challenges?
The in equal distribution of wealth worldwide contributes to health gaps that are worsened by policies from powerful institutions
What Era are we in
Postgenomic era- where the human genome is understood to react to both external and internal environments
