Abstract
Biomedical ontologies are considered a serious innovation for biomedical research and clinical practice. They promise to integrate information coming from different biological databases thus creating a common ground for the representation of knowledge in all the life sciences. Such a tool has potentially many implications for both basic biomedical research and clinical practice. Here I discuss how this tool has been generated and thought. Due to the analysis of some empirical cases I try to elaborate how biomedical ontologies constitute a novelty also from an epistemological point of view.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 59 |
| Journal | Humana mente |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 30 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Biomedical research
- Bio-ontologies
- Scientific practice