- Bioculture
Bioculture, comprises the emerging area bounded by the
medical sciences ,social sciences , area studies, culture studies,biotechnology , disability studies, thehumanities , and the economic and global environment. Bioculture defines the activity and consolidation of ideas created when the human intersects with the technological. Along these lines, one can see the biosphere — theearth as it is affected by thehuman — as the adaptation of the natural to the human and biocultures as the inter-adaptation of the human to the new technologies and ways of knowing characterized by the 21st century’s attitude toward thebody .References
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*Leatherman T, "Changing bioculture perspectives on health in the Andes" (vol 47, pg 1031, 1997) , letter in "Social Science and Medicine", MEDICINE 47 (9): 1397-1397 Nov. 1998
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