Canali, Stefano and Leonelli, Sabina (2022) Reframing the Environment in Data-Intensive Health Sciences. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93. pp. 203-214. ISSN 00393681

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyse the relation between the use of environmental data in contemporary health sciences and related conceptualisations and operationalisations of the notion of environment. We consider three case studies that exemplify a different selection of environmental data and mode of data integration in data-intensive epidemiology. We argue that the diversification of data sources, their increase in scale and scope, and the application of novel analytic tools have brought about three significant conceptual shifts. First, we discuss the EXPOsOMICS project, an attempt to integrate genomic and environmental data which suggests a reframing of the boundaries between external and internal environments. Second, we explore the MEDMI platform, whose efforts to combine health, environmental and climate data instantiate a reframing and expansion of environmental exposure. Third, we illustrate how extracting epidemiological insights from extensive social data collected by the CIDACS institute yields innovative attributions of causal power to environmental factors. Identifying these shifts highlights the benefits and opportunities of new environmental data, as well as the challenges that such tools bring to understanding and fostering health. It also emphasises the constraints that data selection and accessibility pose to scientific imagination, including how researchers frame key concepts in health-related research.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Canali, Stefano stefano.canali@polimi.it 0000-0002-5948-3874 Leonelli, Sabina s.leonelli@exeter.ac.uk 0000-0002-7815-6609
Keywords:	Epidemiology; Big Data; Environment; Exposure
Subjects:	General Issues > Data Specific Sciences > Environmental Science General Issues > Evidence Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Technology
Depositing User:	Dr. Stefano Canali
Date Deposited:	19 Jul 2022 13:01
Last Modified:	19 Jul 2022 13:01
Item ID:	20931
Journal or Publication Title:	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.04.006
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.04.006
Subjects:	General Issues > Data Specific Sciences > Environmental Science General Issues > Evidence Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Technology
Date:	2022
Page Range:	pp. 203-214
Volume:	93
ISSN:	00393681
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20931

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