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The very word “biomedicine”, its emergence and subsequent uses, is a testimony to these differences. The prominence acquired by the term between 1945 and 1975 coincided with the appearance of a new system of medical innovation in relation to biology and
health policy. However, this system was far from homogeneous, and the meaning of
biomedicine has been deeply influenced by the different scientific and national cultures that have shaped western medicine since the late nineteenth century. In Britain, the word
biomedicine first appeared in Dorland’s 1923 Medical dictionary, and meant “clinical medicine supported the principles of
physiology and biochemistry”. On the contrary, they pleaded for a “de-medicalization” of disciplines like bacteriology,
immunology and virology, whose expansion had, consistent with them, been hampered by the influence of “medical mandarins”, and their disciplinary agenda led them to reject the very idea of “biomedicine”. As for clinicians, they preferred the term “medical research” to describe what they saw as a domain based first and foremost on clinical expertise, even if it was influenced by advances made in the life sciences. The fate of “biomedicine” as a word is a marker of the specific, and yet parallel, changes that affected the relationship between science, medicine and public
health in Britain and France.
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