Table 2.

Medical cosmologies; precision medicine

Cosmology	Occupational role of physician	Perception of ‘sick man’ (i.e. patient)	Task of biomedical investigator	Conceptualization of Illness
Bedside	Practitioner	Person	Prognosis and therapy	Overall psycho-somatic disturbance
Hospital	Clinician	Case	Diagnosis and classification	Organic lesion
Laboratory	Scientist	Cell Complex	Analysis and explanation	Biochemical process
Surveillance	Epidemiologist	Risk assemblage	Convert epidemiological risk to clinical risk	Latent deviation from norm
E-scaped	Information scientist	Expert Patient Health Seekers	Assessment and communication of risks; and assessment of research evidence	Communications breakdown, interaction of systems
Precision	Data-consultant	Digital consumer	Biomarker based health promotion	Ill-managed molecular cascades