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AGUIRRE DEL BUSTO, Rosa. Science and technology challenges and some of the contemporary medical knowledge inconsistencies. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2003, vol.3, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1727-8120.

In this article some contradictions that reveal the importance of the understanding of technoscience in the study of medicine are evaluated. It is particularly emphasized the necessity of overcoming the minimalist approach that interprets medical technology taking into consideration only its artifactual understanding, separated from medical knowledge. It propounds the necessity to widen this image of science to the knowledge of technoscience. Important moments in the historical development of medical techniques and technologies are briefly presented. Carl Mitcham 's ideas on the philosophy of technology in medicine, valuating them not only as artifacts, but also as knowledge, human activity, and will, are summarized. All that has been mentioned leads to the necessity of meditating on the problems of ethical, philosophical, sociological, and historical nature introduced in these analyses. Finally, innovative aspects that the social studies of science and technology can display are remarked

Palabras clave : SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY; MEDICINE; KNOWLEDGE.

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