Local Biologies in the Age of Precision Medicine
Margaret Lock - Professor Emerita, Department of Social Studies of Medicine and Department of Anthropology, McGill University
From 2015 > Eleventh World conference - Precision Medicine: Present Challenges for Future Cures
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Speaker & abstract
The concept of local biologies, created in the 1990s, refers to the manner in which both individual biology and that of populations, are inseparably entangled with socio/cultural and political/economic processes through time and across space, resultant in significant variation.