History and social sciences as medical research tools. The SILICOSIS Project and the investigation of the pathogenic effects of dust

The article presents a research on the potential role of silica dust in association with a range of systemic idiopathic diseases (sarcoidosis, systemic lupus, systemic scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis,...). In this interdisciplinary project, the recourse to history helps coordinating a medical know...

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Published in:Quaderni storici 2015-12, Vol.150 (3 (dicembre 2015)), p.785-812
Main Authors: Rosental, Paul-André, Vincent, Michel, Cavalin, Catherine
Format: Article
Language:ita ; eng
Subjects:
Dust
Forgetfulness
Historians
History
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences
Humanities and Social Sciences
Idiopathic
Ignorance
Interdisciplinary aspects
Medical research
Occupational health
Pediatrics
Rheumatoid arthritis
Risk factors
Sarcoidosis
Silicosis
Social sciences
Sociology
Specialists
Stabilization
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Summary:The article presents a research on the potential role of silica dust in association with a range of systemic idiopathic diseases (sarcoidosis, systemic lupus, systemic scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis,...). In this interdisciplinary project, the recourse to history helps coordinating a medical knowledge which is fragmented: a) between disciplines (pulmonology, anatomopathology, internal medicine, pediatrics, genetics, occupational medicine); b) between specialists from the various diseases involved; c) between occupational and environmental diseases. History and the social sciences also help to understanding the «agnotological» processes of ignorance, forgetfulness and non-stabilization of knowledge. Collaboration with historians transforms, literally, the way how physicians question these diseases, whose risk factors are so transversal and heterogeneous that they become hardly visible.
ISSN:0301-6307
2612-1972
DOI:10.1408/82693