Biomedicalization

Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
Herausgeber: Clarke, Adele E; Shim, Janet K; Fishman, Jennifer R; Fosket, Jennifer Ruth; Mamo, Laura

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Produktbeschreibung

Collection of essays that considers the impact of biomedical technologies--MRI scans, assisted reproduction, and specialized drugs--on the social construction of gender.

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The rise of Western scientific medicine fully established the medical sector of the U.S. political economy by the end of the Second World War, the first "social transformation of American medicine." Then, in an ongoing process called medicalization, the jurisdiction of medicine began expanding, redefining certain areas once deemed moral, social, or legal problems (such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and obesity) as medical problems. The editors of this important collection argue that since the mid-1980s, dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have coalesced into biomedicalization, the second major transformation of American medicine. This volume offers in-depth analyses and case studies along with the groundbreaking essay in which the editors first elaborated their theory of biomedicalization. Contributors. Natalie Boero, Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer R. Fishman, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Kelly Joyce, Jonathan Kahn, Laura Mamo, Jackie Orr, Elianne Riska, Janet K. Shim, Sara Shostak

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345701
• ISBN-10: 0822345706
• Artikelnr.: 30367835

Autorenporträt

Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

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