Biomedicalization : technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S. /

Collection of essays that considers the impact of biomedical technologies--MRI scans, assisted reproduction, and specialized drugs--on the social construction of gender.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clarke, Adele E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Medical innovations > Social aspects > United States.
Biotechnology > Social aspects > United States.
Medical technology > Social aspects > United States.
Social medicine.
Medical policy.
Sociology, Medical
Biotechnology > ethics
Marketing of Health Services > ethics
Health Policy
Biotechnologie > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Technologie médicale > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Sociologie médicale.
Politique sanitaire.
MEDICAL > Instruments & Supplies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Health and Fitness.
Biotechnology > Social aspects.
Medical innovations > Social aspects.
Medical technology > Social aspects.
Biomedizin
Gesundheitspolitik
Gesundheitswesen
Reproduktionsmedizin
Ersatzmutterschaft
Sexualmedizin
Liposuktion
Genetik
United States
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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