Bordering biomedicine / edited by Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalitzkus, Vera.

Twohig, Peter.

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 29.

At the interface/Probing the boundaries ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Health--Philosophy.

Health.

Diseases--Philosophy.

Diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Biomedicine is the dominant organizing framework of modern medicine but it is not the only lens through which health, illness and disease can be understood. This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars from around the world who seek to probe the boundaries of biomedicine. This book is the outcome of the third global conference on ""Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease,"" held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in July 2004. The papers selected for this volume take a variety of theoretical positions but share an interest in the social study of health, illness and

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Part 1 Humanist, Social Science and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease; The Musician, the Diarist and the Construction Worker: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease; Stanislaw Wyspiański (1869-1907): The Last Self-Portrait of the Syphilitic Artist; Part 2 The Epistemology of Biomedicine; The Anthropology of Aetiology; The Social Construction of Disease: Why Homosexuality isn't Like Cancer; Green Fingers or Pink Viagra? Female Sexual Dysfunction and Medicalisation in Contemporary Medical Discourse

The Communication of Diagnostic Information by Doctors to Patients in the ConsultationPart 3 Biomedicine in a Socio-Cultural Context; Subaltern Theories of Health and Illness: An Ethnographic Study of Mexican Women With HIV Disease; When the Diagnosed Talk: Ethnographic Narratives of Mental Illness; Critical Excess: Sex, Drugs, Intervention; 'Normal Gone Bad': Health Discourses, Schools and the Female Body; Part 4 Beyond Biomedicine: Ethics, Experience, Voice; Midwifery, Consumerism and the Ethics of Informed Choice; Towards a Concept of Hope: A Functional Reconceptualization

Embodied Practices and Subjectivity in PsychopathologyGetting By: The Lived Experience of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis and their Carers of Waiting for Lung Transplant; Speaking About the Unspeakable: Cervical Screening in New Zealand

Notes:

This book is the outcome of the third global conference on "Making sense of health, illness and disease" held in 2004.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0296-6

1-4237-8824-9

OCLC:

714567347