Biomedicalization
Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2010
512 pages
978-0-8223-9125-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
21 photographs, 3 tables, 4 figures
21 photographs, 3 tables, 4 figures
File size
4,94 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-9125-8 (9780822391258)
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Adele E. Clarke | Laura Mamo | Jennifer Ruth Fosket
Biomedicalization
Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
Book
08/2010
Duke University Press
€46.00
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Adele E. Clarke | Laura Mamo | Jennifer Ruth Fosket
Biomedicalization
Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
Book
08/2010
Duke University Press
€154.50
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Persons
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.
Content
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
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
