Biomedicalization
Subtitle: technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S.
By: Adele E. Clarke ... [et al.], eds.
Contributors: Clarke, Adele.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780822345534; 9780822345701
Subjects: Medical innovations -- Social aspects -- United States; Biotechnology -- Social aspects -- United States; Medical technology -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: From the rise of medicine to biomedicalization : U.S. healthscapes and iconography, circa 1890/present / Adele E. Clarke; title: Gender and medicalization and biomedicalization theories / Elianne Riska; title: Fertility, Inc. : consumption and subjectification in U.S. lesbian reproductive practices / Laura Mamo; title: The body as image : an examination of the economic and political dynamics of magnetic resonance imaging and the construction of difference / Kelly Joyce; title: The stratified biomedicalization of heart disease : expert and lay perspectives on racial and class inequality / Janet K. Shim; title: Marking populations and persons at risk : molecular epidemiology and environmental health / Sara Shostak; title: Surrogate markers and surrogate marketing in biomedicine : the regulatory etiology and commercial progression of "ethnic" drug development / Jonathan Kahn; title: The making of Viagra : the biomedicalization of sexual dysfunction / Jennifer R. Fishman; title: Bypassing blame : bariatric surgery and the case of biomedical failure / Natalie Boero; title: Breast cancer risk as disease : biomedicalizing risk / Jennifer Ruth Fosket; title: Biopsychiatry and the informatics of diagnosis : governing mentalities / Jackie Orr.