Bordering Biomedicine.9042019999 Bordering biomedicine biomedicine /bio·med·i·cine/ (bi?o-med´i-sin) clinical medicine based on the principles of the natural sciences (biology, biochemistry, etc.).biomed´ical bi·o·med·i·cine n. 1. . Ed. by Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig. Editions Rodopi 2006 277 pages $71.00 Paperback At the interface; v.29 R724 Contributors from medical sciences as well as social sciences and humanities lead another foray in the campaign to claim health, illness, and disease as contested territory in which the social sciences and humanities are as legitimate interpreters as biomedicine. They consider such topics as Stanislaw Wyspanianski (1869-1907) and the last self-portrait of the syphilitic syph·i·lit·ic adj. Of, relating to, or affected with syphilis. n. A person with syphilis. artist, why homosexuality is not like cancer, an ethnographic eth·nog·ra·phy n. The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures. eth·nog study of Mexican women with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. disease, and a functional reconceptualization of hope. There is no index. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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