E-Book, Englisch, 512 Seiten
Clarke / Mamo / Fosket Biomedicalization
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9125-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
E-Book, Englisch, 512 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9125-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
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