Biomedicalization : technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S. / Adele E. Clarke ... [et al.], eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Adele E.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical innovations--Social aspects--United States.

Medical innovations.

Biotechnology--Social aspects--United States.

Biotechnology.

Medical technology--Social aspects--United States.

Medical technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays describing how dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have coalesced since the mid-1980s in biomedicalization, the second transformation of American medicine.

Contents:

Biomedicalization : technoscientific transformations of health, illness, and U.S biomedicine / Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, and Jennifer R. Fishman

Charting (bio)medicine and (bio)medicalization in the United States, 1890/present / Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim

From the rise of medicine to biomedicalization : U.S. healthscapes and iconography, circa 1890/present / Adele E. Clarke

Gender and medicalization and biomedicalization theories / Elianne Riska

Fertility, Inc. : consumption and subjectification in U.S. lesbian reproductive practices / Laura Mamo

The body as image : an examination of the economic and political dynamics of magnetic resonance imaging and the construction of difference / Kelly Joyce

The stratified biomedicalization of heart disease : expert and lay perspectives on racial and class inequality / Janet K. Shim

Marking populations and persons at risk : molecular epidemiology and environmental health / Sara Shostak

Surrogate markers and surrogate marketing in biomedicine : the regulatory etiology and commercial progression of "ethnic" drug development / Jonathan Kahn

The making of Viagra : the biomedicalization of sexual dysfunction / Jennifer R. Fishman

Bypassing blame : bariatric surgery and the case of biomedical failure / Natalie Boero

Breast cancer risk as disease : biomedicalizing risk / Jennifer Ruth Fosket

Biopsychiatry and the informatics of diagnosis : governing mentalities / Jackie Orr.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613065063

9781283065061

1283065061

9780822391258

0822391252

OCLC:

659520122