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Record 1 2023-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Medicine
  • Biotechnology
CONT

Biomedicalization describes the increasingly complex, multisited, multidirectional processes of medicalization, both extended and reconstituted through the new social forms of highly technoscientific biomedicine.

Key term(s)
  • biomedicalisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la médecine
  • Biotechnologie
CONT

[...] la biomédicalisation consiste en une intensification de la «médicalisation de la vie» qui se révèle dans une extension continue des compétences de la médecine, surtout à partir des années 1980.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de la medicina
  • Biotecnología
CONT

La biomedicalización es un fenómeno que implica la intervención de los saberes y tecnologías biomédicos en cada vez más aspectos de la vida, con un aumento de su jurisdicción desde la enfermedad a la salud y, hoy en día, sobre la gestión de los cuerpos y las vidas.

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