Biomedicine as culture
Subtitle: instrumental practices, technoscientific knowledge, and new modes of life
By: edited by Regula Valérie Burri and Joseph Dumit.
Contributors: Burri, Regula Valérie.; Dumit, Joseph.
Series: Routledge studies in science, technology, and society -- 6
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780415957984
Subjects: Medicine -- Philosophy; Social medicine; Medical anthropology; Sociology, Medical; Anthropology, Cultural; Culture; Philosophy, Medical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medicalizing culture(s) or culturalizing medicine(s) / Stefan Beck; title: Metaphors of medicine and the culture of healing: historical perspectives / Jakob Tanner; title: Medicine as practice and culture: the analysis of border regimes and the necessity of a hermeneutics of physical bodies / Gesa Lindemann; title: The future is now: locating biomarkers for dementia / Margaret Lock; title: Embodied action, enacted bodies: the example of hypoglycaemia / Annemarie Mol and John Law; title: Sociotechnical anatomy / Regula Valérie Burri; title: Risk and safety in the operating theater: an ethnographic study of socio-technical practices / Cornelius Schubert; title: Genomic susceptibility as an emergent form of life? genetic testing, identity, and the remit of medicine / Nikolas Rose; title: Susceptible individuals and risky rights: dimensions of genetic responsibility / Thomas Lemke; title: "pop genes" : an investigation of "the gene" in popular parlance / Barbara Duden and Silja Samerski; title: Genetics and its publics: crafting genetic literacy and identity in the early twenty-first century / Karen-Sue Taussig; title: Constructing the digital patient: patient organizations and the development of health web sites / Nelly Oudshoorn.