Clarke / Mamo / Fosket Biomedicalization

Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9125-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 512 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Adele E.

Mamo, Laura

Fosket, Jennifer Ruth

Fishman, Jennifer R.

Shim, Janet K.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Riska, Elianne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Adele E. Clarke is Professor of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.Laura Mamo is Associate Professor at the Health Equity Institute for Research, Practice, and Policy at San Francisco State University.Jennifer Ruth Fosket is a principal and founder of Social Green, where she does research and writes on the intersections of health, the built environment, and sustainability.Jennifer R. Fishman is Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine Department at McGill University.Janet K. Shim is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.