Commentary: Integrating Social Aspects into Biomedicine
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Modern biomedicine excels in discoveries in areas such as identification of pathogens and biochemical pathways, and the unveiling of genetic information. This remarkable development had its starting point back in the 19 th century with the discovery of how microorganisms were related to disease. Until this point in time physicians primarily had to rely on patients’ subjective illness experiences and social behavior in deciding diagnosis and treatment [1].
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