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Biomedicalization Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.08.2010

Herausgeber

Adele E. Clarke + weitere

Verlag

Duke University Press

Seitenzahl

512

Gewicht

857 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-8223-4553-4

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.08.2010

Herausgeber

Verlag

Duke University Press

Seitenzahl

512

Gewicht

857 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-8223-4553-4

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Biomedicalization
  • Preface vii
    Acknowledgments xi
    Biomedicalization: A Theoretical and Substantive Introduction / Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, and Jennifer R. Fishman 1
    Part I. Theoretical and Historical Framings
    1. 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 47
    2. Charting (Bio)medicine and (Bio)medicalization in the United States, 1980-present / Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim 88
    3. From the Rise of Medicine to Biomedicalization: U.S. Healthscapes and Iconography, circa 1890—Present / Adele E. Clarke 104
    4. Gender and Medicalization and Biomedicalization Theories / Elianne Riska 147
    Part II. Case Studies: Focus on Difference
    5. Fertility, Inc.: Consumption and Subjectification in U.S. Lesbian Reproductive Practices / Laura Mamo 173
    6. The Body as Image: An Examination of the Economic and Political Dynamics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Construction of Difference / Kelly Joyce 197
    7. The Stratified Biomedicalization of Heart Disease: Expert and Lay Perspectives on Racial and Class Inequality / Janet K. Shim 218
    8. Marking Populations and Persons at Risk: Molecular Epidemiology and Environmental Health / Sara Shostak 242
    9. Surrogate Markers and Surrogate Marketing in Biomedicine: The Regulatory Etiology and Commercial Progression of "Ethnic" Drug Development / Jonathan Kahn 263
    Part III. Focus on Enhancement
    10. The Making of Viagra: The Biomedicalization of Sexual Dysfunction / Jennifer R. Fishman 289
    11. Bypassing Blame: Bariatric Surgery and the Case of Biomedical Failure / Natalie Boero 307
    12. Breast Cancer Risk as Disease: Biomedicalizing Risk / Jennifer Ruth Fosket 331
    13. Biopsychiatry and the Informatics of Diasnosis: Governing Mentalities / Jackie Orr 353
    Epilogue: Thoughts on Biomedicalization in Its Traditional Travels / Adele E. Clarke 380
    References 407
    About the Contributors 485
    Index 487