BiogeomedicineThe earth as the new patient for biomedical sciences under the "one health" concept facing climate change

Zusammenfassung

Introduction: Climate change (CC) is an underrated issue for health sciences. But, CC -the worst current ecotoxicological phenomenon- is the main threat to Public Health and the majority of living populations taking into account similar earlier events in Earth’s history. So far the leadership for controlling CC has been primarily focused on politics (geopolitical agreements) and Geoengineering. However, this complex problem calls for deeper analysis of health and life sciences. Objectives and methods: The involvement and action of the foregoing sciences mediated by transdisciplinary integration is a deontological duty. Moreover, attention is needed when observing the present refractory amplification of CC. Thus, Documentary Systemic Review combined with Cross-cutting transdisciplinary interpretation is the chosen methodology. Identification of integrative triad models for epistemological explanation and exemplification is also used. Results: Faced with the present disassembled state of disciplines in CC that are trying to regroup facing new complex studies, a new paradigm between life and health sciences is proposed. Based on ecotoxicology and epidemiology’s triads and other recent combined fields in life, health and Earth’s sciences, Biogeomedicine results as such a transdisciplinary perspective. Conclusions: Transdisciplinary and qualitative investigation on the subject bring back the very essence of the Ars medica. Widening the approach to the problem leads to the identification of a missing field for studying CC’s therapeutic neutralization. Biogeomedicine can be built relying on the “One Health” concept from mixed biomedical perspectives, basic and applied sciences and geosciences. Inferring qualitative approach strategies, either from medical humanities (micro and macrocosms analogies) or Von Bertalanffy’s theoretical biology would lead to a better, more complete understanding of the problem and how to control it.