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  1. The Challenge of Infectious Diseases to the Biomedical Paradigm.Guillermo Foladori - 2005 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 25 (2):145-158.
    The resurgence of infectious diseases and the emergence of infectious diseases raise questions on how to cope with the situation. The germ or clinical approach is the hegemonic biomedical paradigm. In this article, the author argues that the spread of infectious diseases has posted a challenge to the biomedical paradigm and shows how lock-in procedures maintain alternative and complementary medicine paradigms in the backyard.
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  • When Technique Is the Foundation of Health Care.Raymond Downing - 2012 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 32 (4):265-268.
    One of the clearest examples of a technological system, in the sense that Ellul discussed it, is contemporary biomedical health care. The foundation of technological systems is technique: efficient methods for achieving isolated goals. However, the goal of health care should be to achieve health in the full sense of wholeness. Traditional healing systems addressed heath in this sense, but biomedicine cannot; attempting to use the techniques of traditional systems without the accompanying culture ruptures those systems. Using the contemporary epidemic (...)
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