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What Is New about the Exposome? Exploring Scientific Change in Contemporary Epidemiology
In this commentary, I discuss the scientific changes brought by the exposome, asking what is new about this approach and line of research. I place the exposome in a historical perspective, by analyzing the conditions under which the exposome has been conceived, developed and established in the conte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7215638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32331256 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082879 |
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description | In this commentary, I discuss the scientific changes brought by the exposome, asking what is new about this approach and line of research. I place the exposome in a historical perspective, by analyzing the conditions under which the exposome has been conceived, developed and established in the context of contemporary epidemiological research. I argue that the exposome has been developed by transferring approaches, methods and conceptualizations from other lines of research in the life and health sciences. I thus discuss the conceptual and methodological innovations of the exposome as a result of the merging and adaptation of these elements for new uses and purposes. On this basis, I argue that the novelty of the exposome should be seen in incremental rather than revolutionary terms and, in this sense, the exposome shares significant elements with other projects and repertoires in postgenomics. I conclude by discussing the consequences of this analysis for the potential limitations and future development of exposome research. |
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spelling | pubmed-72156382020-05-22 What Is New about the Exposome? Exploring Scientific Change in Contemporary Epidemiology Canali, Stefano Int J Environ Res Public Health Essay In this commentary, I discuss the scientific changes brought by the exposome, asking what is new about this approach and line of research. I place the exposome in a historical perspective, by analyzing the conditions under which the exposome has been conceived, developed and established in the context of contemporary epidemiological research. I argue that the exposome has been developed by transferring approaches, methods and conceptualizations from other lines of research in the life and health sciences. I thus discuss the conceptual and methodological innovations of the exposome as a result of the merging and adaptation of these elements for new uses and purposes. On this basis, I argue that the novelty of the exposome should be seen in incremental rather than revolutionary terms and, in this sense, the exposome shares significant elements with other projects and repertoires in postgenomics. I conclude by discussing the consequences of this analysis for the potential limitations and future development of exposome research. MDPI 2020-04-22 2020-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7215638/ /pubmed/32331256 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082879 Text en © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Essay Canali, Stefano What Is New about the Exposome? Exploring Scientific Change in Contemporary Epidemiology |
title | What Is New about the Exposome? Exploring Scientific Change in Contemporary Epidemiology |
title_full | What Is New about the Exposome? Exploring Scientific Change in Contemporary Epidemiology |
title_fullStr | What Is New about the Exposome? Exploring Scientific Change in Contemporary Epidemiology |
title_full_unstemmed | What Is New about the Exposome? Exploring Scientific Change in Contemporary Epidemiology |
title_short | What Is New about the Exposome? Exploring Scientific Change in Contemporary Epidemiology |
title_sort | what is new about the exposome? exploring scientific change in contemporary epidemiology |
topic | Essay |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7215638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32331256 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082879 |
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