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Changes of Communication in Biomedical Sciences and Health: “Dr Google” and Hearing Loss
Helena Caria (School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9039-6.ch002
Abstract
Scientific and technological developments are unquestionable, being health in general and human genetics specifically, domains where high throughputs are gorgeous. The internet is changing the behavior of patients with clinicians and health organizations. The project of human genomes ensured new approaches to estimate cause-disease relations. Genotype-phenotype correlations and screening of mutation are now available to all researchers. However, the scientific data are also available to the patients, bringing them to the floor as active partners in therapeutic processes searching with ”Dr. Google” for symptoms, treatments, and cures. Hereditary deafness is not escaping from this civil movement, being a good example of the behavioral change associated with the explosion of the internet, with the commercial offers of hearing aids and cochlear implants offers to be common nowadays. In the chapter, the authors discuss the internet of behaviors in the context of biomedical sciences as human genetics, and hearing loss.