Biomedical Platforms: Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-twentieth-century Medicine
- ISBN-10
- 0262112760
- ISBN-13
- 9780262112765
- Category
- Biochemical markers
- Pages
- 544
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Authors
- Associate Professor of History Peter Keating, Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio
Description
An examination of postwar medicine based on the notion of the biomedical platform—the theoretical and clinical meeting ground between the normal and the pathological.
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