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Title Biomedicalization : technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S. / Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim, editors
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 498 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Biomedicalization : a theoretical and substantive introduction / 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 -- 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 -- Epilogue : thoughts on biomedicalization in its transnational travels / Adele E. Clarke
Summary Collection of essays that considers the impact of biomedical technologies--MRI scans, assisted reproduction, and specialized drugs--on the social construction of gender
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
MEDICAL -- Instruments & Supplies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Health and Fitness.
Social medicine
Medical policy
Biotechnology -- Social aspects
Medical innovations -- Social aspects
Medical technology -- Social aspects
Biomedizin
Gesundheitspolitik
Gesundheitswesen
Reproduktionsmedizin
Ersatzmutterschaft
Sexualmedizin
Liposuktion
Genetik
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Clarke, Adele E., editor.
Mamo, Laura, editor
Fosket, Jennifer Ruth, editor
Fishman, Jennifer R., editor
Shim, Janet K., editor
ISBN 9780822391258
0822391252
1283065061
9781283065061
9786613065063
6613065064