2009/04/01 by Karmen Lončarek · 1 citation
Decision Sciences · Medicine · #Biology #Biomedicine #Construct (python library) #Cultural revolution #Darwinism #Dominance (genetics) #Epistemology #History #Ideology #Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration #Law #Natural (archaeology) #Natural science #Optimism #Philosophy #Political science #Science, Research, and Medicine #Scientific revolution #Social science #Sociology
paper · pdf · doi:10.3325/cmj.2009.50.195
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Ardent disputations and ideological excitation concerning science, such as those incited by Darwinism at the beginning of the 20th century, are unimaginable today. The dominance of biomedicine is so longstanding, strong, universal, and institutionalized that we completely forget that it is only a cultural and sociological construct. This is understandable: natural and applied sciences have in the past two hundred years created great technological and scientific optimism, so that people perceive mostly the positive aspects of the technological expansion and contemporary life.