• Media type: Book
  • Title: Biomedicalization : technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S
  • Contains: Biomedicalization : technoscientific transformations of health, illness, and U.S biomedicine / Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, and Jennifer R. FishmanCharting (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.
  • Contributor: Clarke, Adele E. [Other]
  • imprint: Durham, NC [u.a.]: Duke Univ. Press, 2010
  • Extent: IX, 498 S.; Ill; 24 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780822345534; 9780822345701
  • RVK notation: LC 56000 : Darstellung ohne geografischen Bezug
    MR 3600 : Soziologie und Naturwissenschaften
    MS 6020 : Soziale Aspekte von Gesundheit und Krankheit
    LC 56610 : USA
  • Keywords: USA > Biomedizin > Soziologie
    USA > Biotechnologie > Soziologie
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  • Footnote: Literaturverz. S. [407] - 487 und Index

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